SPRING 2015 CATALOG FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING. REGISTRATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
BRIAN AMKRAUT ABOUT THE PROGRAM Executive Director The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program connects the academic world with ALANNA E. COOPER Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning the general community. Through innovative and engaging programming, learners of all ages, on campus or in the Cleveland community, are able MICHELLE MILLER Assistant Director of to share their love of learning. Through its classes, workshops or lectures, Development, CWRU participants are able to interact with internationally renowned scholars who SHERYL HIRSH share their cutting-edge research or engage in the ongoing conversation of Assistant Director of current and interesting topics. For those who have never taken a class or Jewish Lifelong Learning attended a lecture—please join us this spring semester for exciting learning LORRAINE NELSON opportunities. For those who have studied with Siegal Lifelong Learning Program Administrator before—welcome back! World-renowned authors, art courses, trips to Hawaii FELICIA WESTBROOKS and Germany, and even a guest lecture by an astronaut, are among the many Department Assistant exciting offerings from the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program this semester. KATHY GILL Director of Marketing REGISTRATION OPTIONS FOR ALL CLASSES
HOW TO REACH US: Register Online Register through a simple and secure online registration CWRU Campus: p 216.368.2090 and payment system. f 216.368.1861 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning
Beachwood Campus: Register by Mail p 216.368.2091 f 216-368-1003 Return the registration form on page 78 by mail to:
Email: The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program [email protected] Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Avenue Website: Thwing Center, Room 153 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning Cleveland, OH 44106-7116 Mailing Address: The Laura and Alvin Siegal Register by Telephone Lifelong Learning Program Case Western Reserve University Select your classes and call the main office at 216.368.2090 10900 Euclid Avenue or the Siegal Facility Beachwood at 216.368.2091 Cleveland, OH 44106-7116 to register and pay with a credit card.
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Visitors and Deliveries: Thwing Center, Room 153 11111 Euclid Avenue Financial assistance is available. Cleveland, OH 44106-7116 2 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning CONTENTS
PROGRAMS COURSES BY SUBJECT
ASSOCIATION FOR 50 ART CONTINUING EDUCATION OFF CAMPUS STUDIES PAGE 8 52 HISTORY PAGE 6 54 HOLOCAUST STUDIES
CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC 55 HORTICULTURE & NATURE LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP SPRING KICKOFF PAGE 4 PAGE 21 56 JEWISH STUDIES
59 LANGUAGE
DAY AT THE UNIVERSITY ORIGINS SCIENCE SCHOLARS 60 LAW & ETHICS PAGE 28 PAGE 22 61 LITERATURE
64 MUSIC DISTINGUISHED LECTURES VISITING SCHOLARS PAGE 36 PAGE 32 65 PHILOSOPHY 66 POLITICS & CONTEMPORARY ISSUES EASTSIDE CONVERSATIONS SCHOLARS ON THE CIRCLE 67 RELIGION PAGE 19 PAGE 11 68 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
69 WRITING EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL SENIOR SCHOLARS PAGE 40 PAGE 12
JEWISH STUDIES TZION LECTURE SERIES REFERENCE PAGE 16 PAGE 34 71 LOCATION ADDRESSES 71 OTHER CWRU LIFELONG LAUREL SCHOOL UNIVERSITY FARM LEARNING OPPORTUNTIES PARTNERSHIP PARTNERSHIP PAGE 20 PAGE 14 72 INDEX OF INSTRUCTORS & PRESENTERS 78 REGISTRATION FORM SPONSORED EVENTS
25 BAKER NORD 49 MINI MED SCHOOL 31 THE HOLOCAUST AND 79 VIOLINS OF HOPE PROPAGANDA: CONNECTING THE PAST TO THE PRESENT
www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Partnership, and Jewish Studies advancement, the Siegal Lifelong from the legacy of Siegal College. Learning Program offers something Every semester since our inception, for everyone. Our engaged learners enrollment and participation in include alumni, retired faculty and courses and activities has increased staff and members of the local significantly. community, allowing us to connect a broad audience to high quality But, this initial success represents lifelong learning courses, workshops, only the beginning. Our mission and lectures. is to offer robust educational Brian Amkraut, Executive Director Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning activities to our great community by We continue to think beyond the Program at Case Western Reserve University engaging the intellectual resources possible. Our vision of the future of our world-class faculty at Case includes bringing innovative Amazingly, it has been almost Western Reserve. Our goal is to offer programming to individuals and three years since we launched the programming in every discipline or communities around the globe. Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong area of study at the university— Through onsite instruction in a Learning Program at Case Western science, engineering, humanities, law, variety of local venues, educational Reserve University. We could not medicine, performing arts and more. travel experiences and expanding be more pleased with the progress We want to share the expertise and online learning opportunities, we will that we have made so far. Existing knowledge of our renowned scholars make this vision a reality. programs continue to grow and with the people of Northeast Ohio thrive, including Senior Scholars, Join us in realizing a strong and and beyond. Whether providing Off-Campus Studies, Scholars on vibrant future for the Siegal Lifelong classes for personal enrichment, the Circle, the University Farm Learning Program. professional development or career
SIEGAL LIFELONG LEARNING SPRING KICKOFF
FEATURED SPEAKER Kickoff the spring semester at the Siegal Lifelong Program of Case Western MICHAEL J. FOREMAN Reserve University! CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY, RET., Join us for a distinguished lecture NASA ASTRONAUT featuring NASA astronaut, Captain Michael J. Foreman, U.S. Navy Retired. He Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 will explore the current state of the U.S. 7 p.m. space program, its future, and influence on everyday life in America. He will also Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood reflect on the space program’s impact on Cost: Free and open to the public engineering, medicine, and research.
4 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning THE SIEGAL LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM
A BENEFIT CELEBRATION FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
FEATURED SPEAKER MARY DORIA RUSSELL A LIFE DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY
Date: Monday, May 4, 2015 7:30 p.m. Location: The Tinkham Veale University Center, Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Room Base Admission: $75 per ticket Private Dinner with Speaker: $250 per plate (100 percent of ticket is a tax deductible donation supporting the Lifelong Learning Program)
Join your friends, colleagues, and instructors in celebrating the Lifelong Learning Program! Renowned author Mary Doria Russell will entertain and inspire with tales of writing, researching, and living with intellectual curiosity. Beloved instructors will be honored.
Please consider showing your support by giving an additional tax deductible, charitable donation to the program. Corporate sponsorships are welcome. Backer $10,000 | Patron $5,000 | Friend $1,000
For more information please contact the Laura & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program Brian Amkraut Executive Director 216.368.0423 [email protected] Michelle L. Miller Assistant Director of Development 216.368.8745 [email protected]
Faculty and staff will be on hand to answer questions about the new semester's programming.
www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 5 ASSOCIATION FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION ACE is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing and supporting continuing education programs in cooperation with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University. ACE programs are interactive, energetic, and engaging. ACE independently sponsors Discussion Day, the Annual Book Sale, and Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day.
ACE EVENTS
SPRING 2015 ACE TRIPS ANNUAL MEETING Trips to Cleveland Featured speaker: Pierre van der Westhuizen Gems: Lolly the Trolly Date: Friday, May 29 | 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Tour of the Unusual Location: Tinkham Veale University Center and Unfamiliar Cost: ACE members $40 (includes parking voucher) Date: Friday, June 5, 2015 non-members $45 (includes parking voucher) Time: 11 a.m.–noon Location: meet at the Members of the Association for Continuing Education will meet in the new Powerhouse in the Flats Tinkham Veale University Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve Cost: ACE members $18, University. The program includes the election of new officers and a talk by non-members $23 Pierre van der Westhuizen, president and chief executive officer of the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Optional lunch at Merwin's Wharf restaurant in the Flats. Parking fees and lunch are not included in ACCLAIMED AUTHORS LUNCHEON SERIES the cost. A specifically designed tour THE DEAD KEY Location: Cleveland Skating Club D.M. Pulley for ACE members and their Cost: Friday, June 12 guests featuring the North Full series, all three events: 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Coast Harbor, downtown ACE members $90 Cleveland, the Warehouse THE RED CHAMBER non-members $105 District, the Flats, Ohio City, Pauline A. Chen Single session: PlayhouseSquare and the Friday, July 17 ACE members $32 Gateway District. 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. non-members $40 LISA’S STORY: THE OTHER SHOE Please check the ACE website These best-selling, notable, award- Tom Batiuk for further information on winning authors will discuss their Friday, August 14 ACE trips/events planned books and the writing process. 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. for spring. Includes book sales and signing.
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ACE MEMBERSHIP ACE EXECUTIVE BOARD 2015 –2016 Membership is open to anyone with an inquisitive mind. Membership dues and proceeds from the Annual Book Sale are our only sources of financial support. Laurel Rowen president Support ACE and become a member today! Spencer Neth vice president Micki Brook recording secretary General Membership: $20 | Patron Membership: $35 Pat Ashton corresponding *membership is valid September 1, 2014–August 31, 2015 secretary Veronica Dever treasurer Susan Underhill assistant BOOK DISCUSSION DAY treasurer
SPRING 2015 ACE TRIPS ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, ANTHONY DOERR Guest Speaker: Jeffrey Karem Shaw Festival Date: Monday, April 27 | 9:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Date: Tuesday and Location: Suburban Temple Wednesday, July 28–29, 2015 (two full days with an Cost: ACE members $25 overnight) non-members $30 Trip Leader: The Book Discussion Day Committee will lead small group discussions on the Veronica Dever critically acclaimed best-selling book, All the Light We Cannot See, by local writer, Anthony Doerr. After lunch, Jeffrey Karem will provide insight into the themes Location: Queen’s Landing of the book and comments about the author. Karem is a professor in the Hotel, Niagara-on-the- Department of English at Cleveland State University. Lake, Canada Cost: $479 ACE members BOOK SALE (double occupancy) $499 non-members (double occupancy BOOK SALE $609 ACE members (single) Saturday, May 30 | 10 a.m.–noon ($20 preview; all other times free) $629 non-members (single) Saturday, May 30 | noon–5 p.m. Cost includes round Sunday, May 31 | noon–5 p.m. (coupon day–$5 off purchase of $15 or more) trip transportation Monday, June 1 | noon–5 p.m. (reduced prices) by motor coach, hotel accommodations, two Tuesday, June 2 | 10 a.m.–1 p.m. (box/bag day–$5) breakfasts and two Location: Case Western Reserve University, Adelbert Gym The ACE book sale is plays: “Lady from the one of the oldest and biggest book sales in Northeast Ohio. Over 70,000 books are Sea” by Henrik Ibsen and available. The sale concludes on Tuesday, June 2 with a box sale. “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw. More details about the Book Sale will appear soon on the ACE website and in the ACE spring newsletter.
www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 7 OFF-CAMPUS STUDIES
ABOUT OFF-CAMPUS STUDIES Designated class coordinator volunteers serve as liaisons between the office and the study groups. Off-Campus Studies is a program offered in collaboration The discussion groups select the courses with the help with the Association for Continuing Education (ACE). It of the Class Coordinator and the office. Participation is began in 1947 as Living Room Learning, developed by open to everyone and groups welcome new members Grazella Shepherd at Cleveland College who encouraged with enthusiasm. the Women’s Association, predecessor of ACE, to help design and promote classes. Courses are eight weeks NEW GROUPS long and meet for 1.5 hours per class in locations throughout greater Cleveland. There are no written The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program assignments or exams, rather the classes provide welcomes the formation of new groups. Please call an open environment for lively discussion based on 216.368.2090 if you would like to establish a study group meaningful examination of shared texts. Leader- in your neighborhood. Sessions require a minimum of ten Teachers facilitate the discussion and provide academic participants. background and context. Off-Campus Studies is unique For full course descriptions, see page indicated. among continuing education programs because it is organized in collaboration with its participants. Courses are 8 weeks long and meet 1.5 hours per class.
Class schedule - see page indicated for full details Courses are eight weeks long and meet for 1.5 hours
SPRING 2015 OFF CAMPUS STUDIES CLASSES – EAST DATE & TIME COURSE | LEADER–TEACHER PAGE LOCATION | CLASS COORDINATOR Private Residence Sundays Vanity Fair 13803 Cormere Avenue, 5 p.m. 61 David Ackerman Cleveland, OH 44120 March 22–May 10 Barbara Davis 440.461.0351 Church of the Redeemer Mondays Lincoln in 1862 2420 S. Taylor Road, 10 a.m. 52 Tim Beatty Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 March 23–May 11 Mary Jo Groppe 216.371.1834 South Franklin Circle Mondays The Bully Pulpit 16600 Warren Court 10:30 a.m. 53 Whitney Lloyd Chagrin Falls, OH 44023 March 23–May 11 Caroline Morgan 440.893.9697 | Concierge Desk 440.247.1300 Gates Mills Community Room Mondays 1460 Chagrin River Road 1 p.m. TBD Gates Mills, OH 44040 March 23–May 11 Chelie Eagan 440.338.3357 | Sue Ellick 440.720.1432 First Unitarian Church Tuesdays 21600 Shaker Blvd. 7:30 p.m. TBD Shaker Heights, OH 44122 March 24–May 12 Marilyn Brooks 216.561.0158 | Mel Phillips 216.561.0158 Breckenridge Village Wednesdays Georgia on My Mind 36851 Ridge Road 10:30 a.m. Phyllis Asnien Willoughby, OH 44094 March 25–May 13 Gertrude Bleisch 440-946-3930 | Becky Sutton 440.954.8344
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Class schedule - see page indicated for full details Courses are eight weeks long and meet for 1.5 hours
SPRING 2015 OFF CAMPUS STUDIES CLASSES – EAST (CONTINUED) DATE & TIME COURSE | LEADER–TEACHER PAGE LOCATION | CLASS COORDINATOR Judson Manor Thursdays Hillary Rodham Clinton: 1890 East 107th Street, 1:30 p.m. President in Waiting? 66 Cleveland, OH 44106 March 26–May 14 Pamela Belknap Mark Corcoran 440.376.9263 Hamlet Village Thursdays The Violinist's Thumb 200 Hamlet Hills Drive, 10:30 a.m. 67 Joe Konen Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 March 26–May 14 Jean Hood 440.247.4676 St. Paul's Episcopal Church Fridays My Promised Land 2747 Fairmount Blvd., 10 a.m. 67 Joe Konen Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 March 27–May 15 Donna Weinstein 216.595.0023 Beachwood Library Thursdays Steinbeck's America 25501 Shaker Blvd., 10 a.m. 61 Barbara Parr Beachwood, OH 44122 March 26–May 14 Fran Bulloff 216.932.1930
Class schedule—see page indicated for full details Courses are eight weeks long and meet for 1.5 hours SPRING 2015 OFF CAMPUS STUDIES CLASSES – WEST DATE & TIME COURSE | LEADER–TEACHER PAGE LOCATION | CLASS COORDINATOR Bay United Methodist Church Mondays F. Scott Fitzgerald 29931 Lake Road, 10:30 a.m. 61 Barbara Parr Bay Village, OH 44140 March 23–May 11 Marianne Wagner 440.808.0076 | Beverly Thomas 440.835.2917 Rocky River Library Mondays Irish Influences on America 1600 Hampton Road, 1 p.m 53 Ted Smith Rocky River, OH 44116 March 23–May 11 Kathy Wendling 440.331.4052 The Renaissance Mondays Dangerously Funny 26376 John Road, 9:30 a.m. 53 Bill Brauning Olmsted Township, OH 44138 March 23–May11 Bob Trapp 440.759.8677 Lakewood United Methodist Church Tuesdays Graham Greene, 15700 Detroit Avenue, 10 a.m. From Page to Screen 61 Lakewood, OH 44107 March 24–May 12 Terry Meehan Alice Grinnell 440.892.9103 | Ruth Korenchan 216.221.5834 The Summer of 1927: Middleburg Heights Church Thursdays America Between WWI 7165 Big Creek Parkway, 10 a.m. 53 and the Depression Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 March 26–May 14 Jim Van Horn Barbara Fear 440.826.3795 Westlake United Methodist Church Thursdays O Canada. Glorious and Free! 27650 Center Ridge Road 10 a.m. 61 Joseph Jacoby Westlake, OH 44145 March 26–May 14 Sandra Berendt 440.892.4931 | Joan Grace 440.777.9381 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 9 OFF-CAMPUS STUDIES
Class schedule - see page indicated for full details Courses are eight weeks long and meet for 1.5 hours
SPRING 2015 OFF CAMPUS STUDIES CLASSES – SOUTH DATE & TIME COURSE | LEADER–TEACHER PAGE LOCATION | CLASS COORDINATOR Brecksville United Church of Christ Tuesdays Understanding U.S.–Iran 23 Public Square, 10 a.m. Relations 66 Brecksville, OH 44141 March 24–May 12 Norman Robbins Judy Coleman 440.717.9418 Rosemont Country Club Wednesdays Viva Mexico! 3777 Rosemont Avenue, 10 a..m. 66 Joseph Jacoby Fairlawn, OH 44333 March 25–May 13 Carolyn Portman 330.867.3673 | Myrna Berzon 330.867.1143 Laurel Lake Community Room 200 Thursdays Nicholas and Alexandra Laurel Lake Drive, 1:30 p.m. 53 Betty Zak Hudson, OH 44236 March 26–May 14 Sally Davies 330.655.4283
Demonstrating your commitment to the value of lifelong learning is easier than you LEGACY thought possible. By leaving a bequest, or naming the Lifelong Learning Program as a beneficiary under your life insurance policy, IRA, deferred-compensation plan or similar GIVING retirement plan, you may be able to leave a larger legacy than you ever imagined, and allow future participants to benefit from the same programs you enjoy.
These gifts not only support the vision and mission of the Lifelong Learning Program but they help the university achieve its goals of creating meaningful impact on the community for many years to come. You and your family will take pride in your generosity and forward-thinking while ensuring the continuation of a community treasure. We publically celebrate legacy gifts to encourage others to emulate your generosity—so establishing your legacy is doubly significant through the example you set for the whole community.
Another way to galvanize your generosity is to create an endowment. An endowment will ensure your gift in perpetuity and secure the future of high quality lifelong learning activities in Northeast Ohio. This type of giving provides a permanent stream of income
To start a conversation about leaving your for the Lifelong Learning Program to grow and strengthen its programming while legacy through a gift to the Lifelong Learning memorializing your wishes. Donors can establish endowment funds through an outright Program, please contact Michelle Miller gift, a life income gift, or a bequest that converts to an endowed fund upon maturity. at [email protected] or 216.368.8745.
10 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning SCHOLARS ON THE CIRCLE
ABOUT SCHOLARS ON THE CIRCLE The Scholars on the Circle is a program held in collaboration with various University Circle institutions, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Western Reserve Historical Society, The Music Settlement and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, to name a few. Intellectually challenging courses are taught by local experts and cover a wide variety of topics in the humanities and sciences, including art, music, history, politics, philosophy, astronomy, biology, physics and archaeology, offering participants access to behind-the-scenes expertise.
GALLERY LECTURE SERIES AT THE COMMUNITY HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART AT THE HISTORY CENTER IN THE CLEVELAND UNIVERSITY CIRCLE Instructors: Debbie Apple-Presser, Pat MUSEUM OF ART Ashton, Joellen DeOreo, Kate Hoffmeyer, Instructors: Museum Staff Eliza Saada and Christina Larson Dates: Fridays, March 20–May 1 | 10–11 a.m. Dates: Location: Western Reserve Historical Society Tuesdays, February 3–March 10 | 1–2 p.m. OR (Groups will meet in the Hassler Conference Room) Thursdays, February 5–March 12 | 1–2 p.m. Cost: $85 Location: Cleveland Museum of Art This six-week course on the Community History collections (Tours meet in the Atrium North Court Lobby) of the Western Reserve Historical Society features WRHS Cost: $70 curators and topical experts, who will speak on the Explore the museum’s permanent collection and special communities that have shaped Northeast Ohio. The course exhibitions with instructors from the Department of begins with a survey of several community history collections. Education and Interpretation during this engaging gallery Each proceeding week will feature a different community - lecture series presenting diverse works at the Cleveland African-American, Irish-American, Italian-American, Jewish, Museum of Art. Presentations include art of the 1920s and and LGBT - that will be investigated more deeply. Groups will 1930s, Romanticism, Chinese Imperial Porcelains, Hinduism, meet in the Hassler Conference Room, adjacent to the WRHS and various temporary exhibitions. Research Library and Archives. Enrollment is limited to 28 per session
MUSIC, POLITICS, AND VALUE JUDGMENTS ART SINCE 1900: A PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre Instructor: Michael Miller Dates: Thursdays, March 12–April 30 | 5–6:30 p.m. Dates: Location: The Tinkham Veale University Center Tuesdays, March 17–May 5 | 5–6:30 p.m. Cost: $90 Location: The Tinkham Veale University Center The music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart has made Cost: $90 these composers household names, but why? What was it Many people find modernist and contemporary art difficult about their music that contributed to their longevity? More to understand, let alone appreciate. In this course, students importantly, who decided that their music was good in the will investigate the source of this difficulty by examining the first place? This music appreciation course explores not only historical and theoretical complexities that underlie it. the sonic and aesthetic components of these (and other) Since around 1900, art has become more and more composers’ works, but the impact of tastemakers on their philosophical; it has become about ideas. With this in mind, still-lived fame. participants will explore the rise of abstraction, the “flight from Students will gain insight into the classical music canon, the aesthetics” in the avant-garde, the relevance of artifactuality/ political and cultural circumstances that shaped it and their objecthood, the effects of mass culture and commodification on own musical preferences. the artworld, and more.
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ABOUT SENIOR SCHOLARS COST SENIOR SCHOLARS COUNCIL Senior Scholars is an 11-week program $220 Spring Semester Senior Scholars is supported by the that meets three afternoons per week and $105 One day a week Senior Scholars Council, an elected features academic lectures by university $85 West Side Course group of volunteers who help with faculty and local experts on a variety of the program’s administration and topics. While the format is lecture style, the LOCATION participate in planning the classes. afternoons are informal and interactive with The College Club of Cleveland opportunity to ask questions and discuss the SENIOR SCHOLARS COUNCIL (free parking available) topics of the day.the day.the day. MEMBERS 2014–2015 unless noted otherwise Jim Grunzweig chair Spencer Neth Classes held at The College Club of Cleveland Sue Berlin Jane Outcalt Muriel Black Harvey Rosenbaum 2348 Overlook Road, Cleveland Hts., OH 44106 Veronica Dever Robert Schwartz Don Goldman Francine Sobon
TUESDAYS THE ROBERTS COURT Instructors: Jonathan Adler, Jonathan Entin, Jessie Hill, Ray Ku, and Andrew Pollis Dates: February 3–March 3 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. Law School faculty will present lectures on cases recently before the U.S. Supreme Court: The Affordable Care Act; voting rights (Shelby County, etc.); reproductive rights (Hobby Lobby); cell phone searches, privacy (Riley); and same sex marriage (Windsor/Hollingsworth).
ROME: EXPERIENCING THE ANCIENT CITY Instructors: Kevin Dicus Dates: March 17–April 21 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. Ancient Rome excites the imagination of people throughout the modern world, but how did the city resonate with its ancient inhabitants? How did both the elite and common classes reside in, use and experience the urban setting in which they found themselves? This course examines what it meant to be and act Roman in Rome through different themes: the foundation of Rome; creating a Roman identity; men, women, and children; wealth and luxury; poverty and hardship; explaining disasters; living among great monuments; and leisure time—gladiatorial combat, chariot racing, bathing and theater.
WEDNESDAYS RACIAL AND ETHNIC EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA Instructor: Terri Mester Dates: February 4–March 4 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. This course will focus on the ethnic/racial experiences of Latin, African and Asian Americans through representative works of fiction, nonfiction and film clips. Students will explore the way racial and ethnic identities are produced through political struggle on a local, national and global scale, and how they are maintained and transformed over time. Participants will examine the intersection of race and ethnicity with gender, class, parental pressure and nation in order to better understand how systems of power and inequality are constructed, reinforced and challenged.
Parking is available at The College Club.
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WEDNESDAYS (CONTINUED) RELIGION IN AMERICA I: THE COLONIAL PERIOD Instructor: Joseph Kelly Dates: March 18–April 22 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. This course will trace the history of religion in America from the time Europeans came to North America to the establishment of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Topics will include: Native American religions; Spanish, French, and Dutch influences; and the first colonies, including Roanoke Island, Jamestown and Puritan New England.
THURSDAYS CURATOR SERIES FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Instructors: Brian Redmond, Joe Hannibal, Darin Croft and Denise Su Dates: February 5–March 5 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. Experts from Cleveland Museum of Natural History will present research on topics, such as the archeology of the first Ohioans, millstones rediscovered, ancient mammals of South America and reconstructing ancient worlds.
JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN PRE-MODERN SPAIN (700–1700) Instructor: Elizabeth Lehfeldt Dates: March 19–April 23 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. Scholars have identified medieval Spain as unique among its European neighbors because Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived side by side. This coexistence (la convivencia) is often portrayed as peaceful. Given the religious and cultural differences that separate these groups, the absence of violence among them was striking. This course will examine the history of these relationships: what factors fostered peace and what changes led to outbreaks of violence and repression? Students will examine a wide range of evidence, including legal codes, notarial records, literature, art and architecture.
WEST SIDE COURSE MUSIC, POLITICS, AND VALUE JUDGMENTS Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre Dates: March 12–April 30 | 1:30–3:30 p.m. Location: Don Umerley Civic Center, Rocky River Cost: $85 The music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart has made these composers household names, but why? What was it about their music that contributed to their longevity? More importantly, who decided that their music was good in the first place? This music appreciation course explores not only the sonic and aesthetic components of these (and other) composers’ works, but the impact of tastemakers on their still-lived fame. Students will gain insight into the classical music canon, the political and cultural circumstances that shaped it and their own musical preferences.
Parking is available at The College Club. www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 13 UNIVERSITY FARM PARTNERSHIP
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY FARM PARTNERSHIP Owned by Case Western Reserve, the University Farm, comprised of Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms, is a beautiful 389-acre property in Hunting Valley, Ohio featuring forests, ravines, waterfalls, meadows, ponds and a self-contained watershed. Farm classes take advantage of this spectacular landscape for inspiration and as a setting for learning about nature, cultivation and the environment. The University Farm offers the following programs in partnership with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program.
STARTING FROM SEED FIBERS AT THE FARM: BATIK Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms, Kutina Classroom Instructor: Christopher Bond ON SILK AND SILK PAINTING Cost: $85 Date: Saturday, April 4 Instructor: Peggy Wertheim 1–4 p.m. Date: Tuesdays, May 5–26 Nonfiction covers a wide range of Location: Valleevue and Valley Ridge 1–4 p.m. possibilities. This course will sample different genres, such as nature Farms, Kutina Classroom Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley writing, humor, sports, travel, health, Cost: $35 Ridge Farms, Honey House and how-to. Students will write This class will be an overview of Cost: $75 about their own life experiences on starting crops from seed, including Discover, create and explore the these topics. cold weather crops, warm weather exciting techniques of batik and crops and herbs. The class will be silk painting inspired by the natural POETRY WORKSHOP a combination of presentations, a beauty of Squire Valleevue Farm. Instructor: Linda Tuthill tour and hands-on activities and Students will learn resist application, Date: Thursdays, May 7–June 18 demonstrations. waxing, color blending, dye 1–3 p.m. theory, paint and salt techniques. BASICS OF VEGETABLE Participants will create several Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley PRODUCTION pieces of silk wall art to frame and/ Ridge Farms, The Pink Pig or silk scarves. A wealth of design Cost: $85 Instructor: Christopher Bond ideas, reference books and handouts At its heart, poetry is creative play. Date: Saturday, May 2 will be provided. No experience is 1–4 p.m. Students will use the materials of necessary. Enrollment is limited. poetry: simile, metaphor, image, line Location: Valleevue and Valley breaks and word choice to make a Ridge Farms, Kutina Classroom WRITING CREATIVE new world on the page. They will Cost: $35 NONFICTION share the results of their word play, This class will take a look at the Instructor: Linda Tuthill giving and receiving constructive feedback. Each student should bring basics of starting, maintaining and Date: Tuesdays, May 5–June 16 15 copies of an original poem to the harvesting annual and perennial 1–3 p.m. – OR – first class. vegetables. The class will be a Wednesdays, May 6–June 17 combination of presentations, a 1–3 p.m. tour and hands-on activities and demonstrations.
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BIRDS AND BREAKFAST JOURNAL WRITING PAINTING IN THE OUTDOORS Instructor: Tim Matson Instructor: Jenny Clark Instructor: Patricia Sigmier Date: Fridays, May 8–June 12 Date: Thursdays, May 14–June 25 Date: Thursdays, June 4–25 6:30–8:30 a.m. 9:30–11:30 a.m. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (breakfast 8:30–9 a.m.) Location: Squire Valleevue and Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Valley Ridge Farms, The Pink Pig Ridge Farms Ridge Farms (Meet in Greenhouse Cost: $85 Cost: $125 Parking Lot) Choice and identity are closely Student artists will explore painting Cost: $85 linked. Choices are empowering in the outdoors using watercolor or May and June are busy months for and a personal journal can be a tool another medium. Subjects will be birds. Migrants arrive and some for discerning wants and needs. found in the beautiful environs of continue their journeys northward. Through quotes, questions and daily Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Others, along with permanent writing, students will examine the Farms. Students of all skill levels, residents, establish and actively thrill of the choice including beginners, are welcome. defend their territories and carry Each participant will be instructed out reproductive activities. Come WALKING THROUGH NATURE individually and will work at his or and learn to recognize the many her own pace. Students should Instructor: Jay Abercrombie species of birds on the basis of bring a bag lunch. Beverages will be appearance, song, and behavior in Date: Wednesdays, June 3–17 provided. Enrollment is limited. the meadows, woodlands, ravines 10 a.m.–noon and ponds of Squire Valleevue Farm. Location: Squire Valleevue and ALL ABOUT ROSES Participants will explore the bluebird Valley Ridge Farms (Meet in Instructor: Christopher Bond trail, watch busy bobolinks or be Greenhouse Parking Lot) Date: Saturday, June 6 rewarded with a rare sighting of Cost: $45 Henslow’s Sparrow. No prior birding 1–4 p.m. This field seminar provides a experience is necessary. Binoculars Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley close look at the plants, wildlife and field guides are recommended. Ridge Farms Kutina Classroom and geology of Squire Valleevue A continental breakfast will be Cost: $35 Farm. Discover the natural riches available at the Pink Pig following of this area by foot travel. On This class will examine the various each morning’s activities. field trips into the forest and types of roses, their history, uses meadows, participants will observe and their culture. The class will be and discuss habitats and their a combination of presentations, a inhabitants: mammals, birds, tour and hands-on activities and reptiles, amphibians, insects, demonstrations. trees, shrubs, flowers, ferns and fungi. No strenuous hiking will be involved, but participants should be able to maintain an active pace over generally moderate, but occasionally, hilly or wet terrain.
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ABOUT JEWISH STUDIES Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Most programming is held at the Siegal Facility Beachwood, 26500 Shaker Blvd., Program continues the legacy of Jewish adult education courses offered but occasionally, other convenient for nearly nine decades through the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic locations throughout Northeast Ohio are used. Studies and its predecessor institutions. Offerings include courses in basic For more information, contact: to advanced Hebrew language instruction, Bible study, Jewish thought, Alanna E. Cooper history, culture, and literature. The Distinguished Lecture Series brings Tel: 216.368.5686 world-renowned experts in Jewish studies to engage the community. Email: [email protected] Film screenings and cultural programs explore contemporary Jewish life in The Jewish Studies Program at Case America and abroad. Courses can be found in the Jewish studies section on Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program page 56 and integrated within the other subject areas. receives generous support from the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
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TRAVEL THE
JEWISH WORLD Dates: Wednesdays, 10–11:30 a.m. WITHOUT LEAVING CLEVELAND Location: Mandel Jewish Community Center Accompany travelers and scholars on a tour of the Jewish world— Cost: $50 for all four sessions without leaving Cleveland! Drawing on photos and their own JCC Members only travel experiences, instructors will introduce and highlight Jewish $55 for all four sessions life in Germany, Scandinavia, Uzbekistan and China. non-JCC Members/general public $15 per session Co-sponsored by the Mandel Jewish Community Center. members and non-members
SCANDINAVIA THROUGH THE EYES OF A IN SEARCH OF A JEWISH STORY IN CHINA JEWISH TRAVELER Instructor: Irene Shaland Instructor: Irene Shaland Date: February 25 Date: February 11 Seeking a Jewish story in China, students are taken on Take a spectacular visual journey through Norway, a unique journey spanning over 2,000 years through the Sweden, and Denmark, which are all known for their Silk Road and six cities, including Harbin, Kaifeng, Luoyang stunning natural beauty, magnificent royal capitals, and and Shanghai. stark modern architecture. What are the Jewish secrets of the Gobi Desert and the Participants will discover the Jewish history of these Silk Road? Where were the oldest Jewish prayer-houses countries, the role each one played during the Holocaust, found? What do the most anti-Semitic of Russian Tsars, and understand what it means to live as a Jew in a railroad, a Chinese fishing village, and Russian-Yiddish Scandinavia today. culture have in common? Participants take a virtual journey to China to learn the answers!
CENTRAL ASIA’S BUKHARAN JEWS IN JEWISH GERMANY: UZBEKISTAN’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE WHERE PAST AND PRESENT MEET Instructor: Alanna E. Cooper Instructor: Jay Geller Date: February 18 Date: March 4 Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 50,000 Participants will learn about the rich history of Bukharan Jews lived in Soviet Central Asia. Today, Jewish Germany, the large and vibrant Jewish only a few hundred remain. Through photos and community that lives there today and the ways in stories based on first-hand travel experiences, which the shadow of the Holocaust leaves its mark students will explore the rich history of this on urban life. community, the dramatic scattering of Jews from Discussion will focus on the old Jewish community the area, and the communal property—synagogues in Frankfurt, the large Jewish immigrant community and cemeteries—that they leave behind. in Heidelberg, rebuilding of Jewish spaces in Munich and the diversity of Jewish life in Berlin.
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Jewish Boot Camp is a crash course that provides a basic introduction to Jewish thought, history and traditions. All are welcome!
Date: Thursdays 6:30–8 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $54 for each 4-week section or $144 for all three sections
This course is designed for those interested in exploring conversion, in an interfaith relationship, raised Jewish but never had a good understanding of what that meant or simply interested in learning about Judaism. Each four- week section is led by a dynamic and thoughtful instructor. Register for one, two or all three.
JEWISH HISTORY JEWISH TRADITIONS JEWISH VALUES
Instructor: Brian Amkraut Instructor: Alanna Cooper Instructor: Elise Braverman-Plotkin Date: February 26–March 26 Date: April 30–May 21 Date: May 28–June 18 no class on March 19 This course provides a concise, but This course examines Judaism’s core This course surveys the broad comprehensive look at the traditions values and beliefs set forth in the sweep of Jewish history. It begins that mark the Jewish calendar and Hebrew Bible and by the ancient with a look at the Biblical period and the cycle of life. The course begins rabbis. The class will explore how the emergence of Israelite life and with an overview of the all major those ideas developed and continue culture in its ancient near eastern Jewish holidays, their meanings, how to have relevance today. context, and takes students on a they developed, and how they are Topics include: creation in the image journey through history all the way observed today. of God, respect and kindness in a to the modern era. This class will then move to a community, repairing the world, and Students address the critical discussion of major life cycle rituals: the unity of the Jewish people. Join questions: How and why did Judaism What did Bar and Bat Mitzvahs look in discussions of how these values manage to survive through so like before they became large (often offer multiple approaches for living a many challenges? What sorts of garish) affairs? How is a Jewish modern, ethical life. encounters helped to shape the long wedding conducted and why? How and varied story of Judaism and the are Jews buried and mourned? Jewish people?
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THE JEWS OF CLEVELAND SEMINAR Sunday, March 22 and Monday, March 23 Western Reserve Historical Society
The Cleveland Jewish Archives of the Western Reserve Invited authors include: Historical Society, in cooperation with the Jewish Sylvia Abrams, Samantha Federation of Cleveland, is preparing The Jews of Baskind, Rachel Gordan, Peter Cleveland, an anthology of scholarly essays to be edited Haas, David Hammack, Kathryn by museum staff, John Grabowski and Sean Martin. Hellerstein, Mary McCune, Todd Michney, Ira Robinson, Lifsa Invited authors will discuss a variety of topics, including early Jewish families Schachter, Mark Souther and in the 19th century; the Civil War; philanthropy; education; Orthodox Judaism; Sally Wertheim. popular culture; Zionism; Jewish women’s organizations; the move to the suburbs; and the Soviet Jewish movement. For additional information, contact Sean Martin, Panel sessions on Sunday and Monday will allow scholars to introduce their work [email protected]. and discuss common themes. Hasia R. Diner, professor at New York University, will present, Local Jews, Global Stories: Cleveland Jewry and Modern Jewish History on Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. This event is co-sponsored by Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve.
EASTSIDE CONVERSATIONS Loosely fashioned after the ever popular City Club Forum, these sessions provide the Dates: 3rd Wednesday of each month, community with a unique luncheon program once a month, in which contemporary 12:00–1:30 p.m. issues are discussed. Led by local university faculty and laypeople, this forum provides Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood participants the opportunity to engage in meaningful questions and conversations. Cost: Single Session $18 Full Series $62
February 18 March 18 April 15 May 20 THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM DOES MORALITY DEPEND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE JEWISH IS THERE A JEWISH CLASSICAL Brian Amkraut ON RELIGION? EXPERIENCE ABOUT RELIGION IN AMERICA MUSIC? DO YOU HAVE TO Michael Miller TODAY BE JEWISH TO WRITE IT? This conversation Peter J. Haas Eric Kisch addresses the current In Dostoyevsky's The Brothers state of anti-Semitism with Karamazov, the character Ivan The Pew Religion & Public Life Project reported In this discussion, participants a specific focus on western infamously declares "if there is no that the proportion of U.S. adults who identify will ponder the question: Is there and central Europe. God, then everything is permitted." their religion as Jewish has declined by about Jewish classical music? Accepting Participants examine Many have found Ivan's sentiment half since 1950. But according to the National this premise, students will then how Israeli/Palestinian compelling, but is it really true that Jewish Population Survey, in less than 25 years, answer the question: Do you flare-ups impact European ethical standards are dependent the American Jewish population has increased have to be Jewish to write it? attitudes towards Jews upon religion? Drawing upon by nearly 30 percent to around 7 million. What A body of some great musical and the role that growing themes from some of the greatest accounts for the discrepancy? This discussion will examples will be presented so Muslim communities in philosophers in history, students examine the complicated issues of the American participants can make up their Europe play in increased will critically examine this alleged anti-Semitism. dependency. religious landscape raised by recent Jewish own minds. demographic research. www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 19 LAUREL SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP
ABOUT LAUREL SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program in conjunction with Laurel School offers a variety of courses in art, literature appreciation, and adult language classes. All classes will meet at one of the Laurel campuses—Lyman or Butler.
LOTS MORE MOSAIC AND TILE METALS: WORKING WITH WIRE Instructor: George Woideck Instructor: Catherine Butler Dates: Thursdays, April 9–May 14 (no class April 23) Dates: Wednesdays, April 1–May 6 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 6:30–9:30 p.m. Location: Laurel School-Butler Campus, Reid Lodge Location: Laurel School-Lyman Campus Cost: $260 (includes supplies) Cost: $170 (includes supplies) This course is a continuation of the popular hands-on Students explore working both two and three class that created projects inspired by Byzantine and dimensionally with steel, brass, and copper wire. Spanish art. It is perfect for new students, as well as Techniques will include forming, happening and riveting. previous students wanting further exploration into Students may choose to make either jewelry or objects, mosaic tile. Participants will complete several projects, starting with specific given projects, then moving on in including a Moorish ceramic tile. individual directions. No previous experience is needed. Parking is provided on the Laurel Campus.
GREEK TRAGEDIES VALUES & VISIONS: A CONVERSATIONAL INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING Instructor: Janice Vitullo Dates: Saturdays, April 11–May 23 Instructor: David Huston 10:30 a.m.–noon Dates: Tuesdays, April 7–May 26 Location: Laurel School-Lyman Campus 7–8:30 p.m. Cost: $95 Location: Laurel School-Lyman Campus Cost: $75 (excludes $45 fee for book paid directly to This course comprises a close reading and discussion instructor at first class) of several Greek plays written about the aftermath of the fall of Troy, including Aeschylus’ trilogy the Oresteia; Many people are intimidated by the strange language and Electra and Ajax by Sophocles; and Electra, Hecuba, obscure ideas of philosophy. Using the unique approach Andromache, and Trojan Women by Euripides. of St. John’s College (The Great Books College), this course will help familiarize students with philosophical concepts Texts required for the course are as follows: by emphasizing short readings of accessible classic texts The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; in literature and philosophy chosen to stimulate thought The Eumenides, Aeschylus, Penguin Classics, and conversation on topics essential to a meaningful life: ISBN 978-0140443332 friendship, leadership, community, truth, justice, morality Electra and Other Plays, Sophocles, Penguin Classics, and beauty. Be prepared to learn, listen and lead! ISBN 978-0140449785 Required text: Mapping the Future (Touchstone Press), Electra and Other Plays, Euripides, Penguin Classics, $43—due at the first class. Previous attendees who ISBN 978-0140446685 purchased the text before may use their current copy; though the focus will be on different chapters.
20 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP
ABOUT THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program in conjunction with the Cuyahoga County Public Library offers interesting and lively book discussions or courses with local experts. Discussions are held at different library branches and are free and open to the public.
BOOK DISCUSSIONS WITH LOCAL EXPERTS
MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: ALICE MUNRO – MASTER OF THE STEINBECK’S GRAPES OF WRATH— A TALE OF WONDERS SHORT STORY TAKE ANOTHER LOOK Instructor: Instructor: Instructor: Barbara Parr Sylvia F. Abrams Sylvia F. Abrams Dates: Thursdays, May 7–28 Dates: Wednesdays, Dates: Mondays, April 7–8:30 p.m. April 15–May 6 20–May 11 Location: 10–11:30 a.m. 1–2:30 p.m. Cuyahoga County Public Location: Cuyahoga County Location: Cuyahoga Library, Bay Village Branch Public Library, Mayfield County Public Library, This iconic American novel, celebrating its Branch Orange Branch 75th anniversary of publication, is guaranteed Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize to generate lively discussions. Steinbeck is Things is a novel of early 20th century New for Literature, has been called the “Chekov” as relevant now as he was in 1939. Literary York that intertwines two unlikely love starved of our time. In this course, students will and historical aspects of the novel will be the protagonists: Coralie and Eddie. Each inhabits read, Dear Life, published in 2012. This primary focus. Participants will rediscover the a different section of gritty New York: Coralie— anthology includes several narratives in genius of Steinbeck and this superior novel. Coney Island and Eddie—the Lower East Side. which women, in some way, shake off Hoffman’s readers encounter melodramatic the weight of their upbringing and do stories imbued with the atmosphere of something unconventional. Discussions will folk tales. She skillfully weaves into this examine how Munro has revolutionized the mesmerizing plot strange, yet sympathetic architecture of short stories and probe what people living in bizarre circumstances. her spare fiction reveals about human nature.
ABOUT THE LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program in conjunction with the Lakewood Public Library offers interesting and lively book discussions or courses with local experts. Discussions are held at main library branch and are free and open to the public.
date & time course | leader-teacher location Are science and religion fundamentally opposed to one another? Is Religion and Science: there empirical evidence for or against God's existence? Is the theory Thursdays of Intelligent Design a genuine rival to evolutionary theory? What do Lakewood 7–8:30 p.m. Some Philosophical modern biology and neuroscience imply about the nature of the human Public Library, February 5–26 Questions mind, the soul or the prospect of life after death? In this series, each Main Branch Michael Miller of these questions will be considered and the historical and political context in which they have been debated will be examined.
Tuesdays Steinbeck’s Grapes This iconic American novel, celebrating its 75th anniversary of pub- 7–8:30 p.m. of Wrath—Take lication, is guaranteed to generate lively discussions. Steinbeck is as Lakewood April 28–May relevant now as he was in 1939. Literary and historical aspects of the Public Library, 19 (no class on Another Look novel will be the primary focus. Participants will rediscover the genius Main Branch May 12) Barbara Parr of Steinbeck and this superior novel.
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ABOUT THE ORIGINS SCIENCE SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The Origins Science Scholars Program is presented by the Siegal Lifelong PROGRAM SCHEDULE Learning Program and The Institute for the Science of Origins (ISO), a partnership of Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of 5:30 p.m. Coffee and Sign-In Natural History and ideastream. 6 p.m. Lecture 7 p.m. Dinner with During this unique program, members of the community engage with each OSS faculty and fellows other and with leading scholars of the origins sciences to investigate rapidly developing areas of origins science. Each evening begins with a presentation 7:30 p.m. Q & A and Dessert by a world-class researcher, followed by dinner and open discussion among all of the participants. PROGRAM COSTS
SPRING 2015 ORIGINS SCIENCE SCHOLARS $165 for the series of seven $40 per lecture The Origins Science Scholars consists of seven lectures in the series. This lecture series is To register: co-sponsored by the Siegal Lifelong Learning call 216-368-2090 or visit Program, The Institute for the Science of Origins www.siegallifelonglearning.org/ and ideastream. origins-science-scholars-program. html
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR: THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE NEANDERTHALS AMONG US-MODERN PAST AND FUTURE EVOLUTION PHYSICS–THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND ARCHAIC HUMAN EVOLUTION: OF THE LUNG SCIENTIFIC THEORY EVER NEW DISCOVERIES FROM MANOT CAVE Lecturer: Gregory Forest Lecturer: Bryan Lynn Lecturer: Bruce Latimer Date: Tuesday, April 14 | 5:30–8 p.m. Date: Tuesday, April 28 | 5:30–8 p.m. Date: Tuesday, May 19 | 5:30–8 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Location: The Tinkham Veale University Location: The Tinkham Veale University Location: The Tinkham Veale University Center, Case Western Reserve University Center, Case Western Reserve University Center, Case Western Reserve University
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR PAST THE STANDARD MODEL OF PARTICLE NEANDERTHALS AMONG US-A FINE AND PRESENT-BREATHING WATER PHYSICS– DO WE NEED MORE? KETTLE OF FISH: RECONSTRUCTING THE AND GULPING AIR: EVOLUTION OF Lecturer: Glenn Starkman NEANDERTHAL DIET LUNGS AND OTHER ORGANS OF GAS Lecturer: Nikki Burt EXCHANGE Date: Tuesday, May 5 | 5:30–8 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Date: Tuesday, May 26 | 5:30–8 p.m. Lecturer: Joseph LaManna Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Location: The Tinkham Veale University Date: Tuesday, April 21 | 5:30–8 p.m. Center, Case Western Reserve University Location: The Tinkham Veale University Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Center, Case Western Reserve University Location: The Tinkham Veale University NEANDERTHALS AMONG US-KISSING Center, Case Western Reserve University COUSINS: A REVIEW OF THE NEANDERTHALS Lecturer: Scott Simpson Date: Tuesday, May 12 | 5:30–8 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Location: The Tinkham Veale University Center, Case Western Reserve University
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ORIGINS – SOUTH
The Origins – South program series consists of Cost: $135 for the series of four four lectures in the series. This lecture series is $40 per lecture co-sponsored by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program cost includes dinner Program, The Institute for the Science of Origins and the Cuyahoga County Public Library. To register: call 216-368-2090 or visit www.siegallifelonglearning.org/ origins-science-scholars-program. html.
FROM ATOMS TO QUARKS ARE HUMANS STILL EVOLVING? What discoveries were necessary? CLIMATE & RECENT HUMAN It was not just the evolution of Lecturer: Glenn Starkman EVOLUTION different computing devices over the Date: Thursday, January 22 centuries, but also the people—the Lecturer: Cynthia Beall 5:30–8 p.m. human insights and creativity—that Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Date: Thursday, February 19 brought discovery to this point. Location: Cuyahoga County Library, 5:30–8 p.m. Parma-Snow Branch Lecture begins at 6 p.m. A BACKACHE OF LONG-STANDING Matter is made out of atoms, but Location: Cuyahoga County Library, Lecturer: Bruce Latimer what are atoms made of? In the Parma-Snow Branch Date: Thursday, April 9 process of answering that question, Sometimes people think of evolution researchers have moved from small 5:30–8 p.m. as something that happened a very Lecture begins at 6 p.m. experiments in undergraduate long time ago, but in fact, humans Location: Cuyahoga County Library, teaching laboratories to the are still evolving and adapting Parma-Snow Branch construction of the Large Hadron to their environments. Extreme Collider in Geneva—the largest climates, such as those found at From sore feet to backaches, blame machine in the world. In the process, high altitudes have led to some it on human evolution. Adapting scientists have come to uncover surprising adaptations among to a very new mode of locomotion, and understand the Standard Model humans inhabiting the earth today! upright walking, has created physical of particle physics; the single best- challenges from flat feet and tested theory in all of science. In this bunions to slipped discs, hernias and lecture, participants will experience THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF COMPUTERS fallen pelvic floors. And as bizarre that journey of discovery for as it sounds, rising from four to two themselves. Lecturer: Danny Solow feet resulted in reshaping the face Date: Thursday, March 19 and head, producing dental problems 5:30–8 p.m. such as wisdom teeth with no room Lecture begins at 6 p.m. to grow! Location: Cuyahoga County Library, Parma-Snow Branch Laptop computers are ubiquitous today, but how did this happen?
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ORIGINS – EAST
The Origins—East program consists of five lectures in the series. This lecture Cost: $175 for the series of five series is co-sponsored by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program and The $40 per lecture Institute for the Science of Origins. Program cost includes dinner To register: call 216-368-2091 or visit www.siegallifelonglearning.org/ origins-science-scholars-program. html.
OH DEAR, WHAT COULD DARK HOW EUCLID MADE THE LASER FLASHES IN THE NIGHT MATTER BE? PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM SKY: SEARCHING FOR EXTRA UNBEARABLE TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Lecturer: Glenn Starkman Date: Monday, January 26 Lecturer: Colin McLarty Lecturer: Corbin Covault 5:30–8 p.m. Date: Monday, February 2 Date: Monday, March 2 Lecture begins at 6 p.m. 5:30–8 p.m. 5:30–8 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood
OXYGEN: A TOXIC CHEMICAL INSULIN FOR ALL: IMPROVING CRUCIAL FOR LIFE NATURE’S HANDIWORK Lecturer: Joe LaManna Lecturer: Mike Weiss Date: Monday, February 23 Date: Monday, March 30 5:30–8 p.m. 5:30–8 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Lecture begins at 6 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood
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24 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning BAKER NORD EVENTS
CHEMISTRY IN ART, ART IN BAKER NORD EVENTS CHEMISTRY, AND THE SPIRITUAL The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities GROUND THEY SHARE hosts a number of public events on campus to Lecturer: Roald Hoffmann spark interest in the arts and humanities. All Date: Thursday, February 12 events are free and open to the public unless 4:30 p.m. otherwise noted. For more details on the center or to see a complete listing of all the offerings or to register, visit case.edu/humanities. Location: Tinkham Veale University Center CONFIRMED EVENTS INCLUDE: After looking at the evolution of pigments for one color, blue, clearly MY ARCHITECT FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: an object of our desire, we will ROCKWELL KENT Date: Monday, January 26 discuss how scientific articles deal 6 p.m. Lecturer: Frederick Lewis with representation of an underlying Location: Case Western Reserve Date: Monday, February 9 reality, and face questions that are University, Wolstein Building 5 p.m. essentially artistic. On to the spiritual ground which an art and a science Auditorium Location: Case Western Reserve that has creation at its heart share – University, Wolstein Building Nominated for an Academy alchemy is one manifestation. More Auditorium Award, this documentary features will emerge from a question that at director Nathaniel Kahn searching Artist and social activist, Rockwell first sight seems absurd: Is there an to understand his father, noted Kent, produced haunting landscapes analogue in science to abstract art? architect Louis Kahn, who died inspired by his adventures in Alaska, bankrupt and alone in 1974. Tierra del Fuego and Greenland. For more than 10 years, Frederick THE STORY OF THE CLEVELAND Lewis, producer and writer, retraced PLAY HOUSE ANIMATING THE WAR: THE FIRST the nomadic artist’s many travels, WORLD WAR AND THE HISTORY OF shooting footage in Greenland, Lecturer: Jeffrey Ullom ANIMATION Newfoundland, Alaska, Ireland and Date: Monday, February 16 Russia. 5:30–8 p.m. Lecturer: Donna Kornhaber Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Date: Thursday, February 5 4:30 p.m. Cost: $40 (includes dinner) ISSUES ON 20TH AND 21ST Location: Case Western Reserve CENTURY ART Founded in 1915, the Cleveland Play University, Clark Hall, Room 206 House remains the longest-running Lecturer: Anuradha Vikram professional theater in the country, The history of animation dates back Date: Wednesday, February 11 but its history has to the 1890s, yet the medium as 5 p.m. never been studied known today was deeply shaped by by anyone outside the events of the First World War. Location: MOCA, 11400 Euclid Ave. of the institution This talk explores the role that the From her pedagogical and curatorial itself. Jeffrey Ullom Great War played in the modern experience, Anuradha Vikram, contextualizes the development of animation in terms curator, critic, and educator, and history of Cleveland’s of subject matter, style, humor, and currently director of residency famous theater to look beyond the relationship to violence. th programs at 18 Street Arts subjective legacy and explore how Center in Santa Monica, California and why this institution is able to will expand on the productive persevere decade after decade. intersections of art as research, art as engagement, and art as politics. www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 25 BAKER NORD EVENTS
HONORING THE PROPHET, NEOLIBERAL PRACTICES AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA IN PERFORMING AMERICAN ISLAM THE PAST 40 YEARS Lecturer: Justine Howe Lecturer: Idelber Avelar Date: Wednesday, February 18 Date: Friday, February 27 noon 5 p.m. Location: Case Western Reserve Location: Case Western Reserve University, Wolstein Building Auditorium University, Clark Hall, Room 206 This talk will address the effects of neoliberal practices in cultural production, For centuries, Muslims have the transformation of state economies into transnational flow of goods, performed mawlids, or festivals and the reshape of literary imaginaries, the Free Trade agreements throughout celebrations in honor of the Prophet different areas of the continent, the filming industry vs the independent Muhammad. Howe examines the productions, the introduction of neoliberalism through dictatorships, the resurgence of mawlids in Chicago- preservation of patrimony by the State or the markets, the discourse of area Muslim institutions. An informal memory as a new commodity and the role of the global and regional digital lunch will be served. practices within literary systems.
INTERSPECIES ETHICS THE LONG NOW OF DIGITAL MAKING LITERATURE NOW HUMANITIES Lecturer: Cynthia Willet Lecturer: Amy Hungerford Lecturer: Julia Flanders Date: Tuesday, February 24 Date: Friday, March 6 4:30 p.m. Date: Thursday , March 5 3 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Location: Case Western Reserve Location: Case Western Reserve University, Clark Hall, Room 206 Location: Case Western Reserve University, Clark Hall, Room 206 University, Clark Hall, Room 309 Drawing upon animal studies Hungerford will speak about her and relational ethics, Willet The fast pace of technological book in progress, offering an proposes trans-species ideals change makes it challenging to plan exploration of the artistic and of communitarianism and for the long-term future of digital social networks that thrive today cosmopolitan peace. projects, and yet a flourishing culture through small traditional and digital of digital scholarship demands the publishing ventures. balance of the need for innovation against the need for stability and longevity. Flanders will consider ETEOCLES IN THE HERMENEUTIC the Women Writers Project as an CIRCLE example of a very long-term digital publication and research project, now Lecturer: Timothy Wutrich in its 26th year, and will talk about Date: Monday, March 16 the tools, methods and intellectual 4:30 p.m. challenges that have helped sustain Location: Case Western Reserve this project and given it a durable University, Clark Hall, Room 206 role in the evolving landscape of digital humanities. Sophocles’s tragedy, Oedipus the King, is well-known. Few, however, know that Aeschylus wrote a dramatic trilogy about the family of Oedipus. Wutrich considers the success of Aeschylus’s trilogy when it was first produced in 467 B.C. and its place in Greek theater history.
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MAKING, MINING, MARKING, AND READING INTERFACES: INQUIRIES WHO STARTED WORLD WAR I? MASHING: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF CENTENARY DEBATES ABOUT WAR CURRICULUM IN 2025 LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY GUILT AND MEANING Lecturer: T. Mills Kelly Date: Wednesday, April 8 – Friday, Lecturer: Kenneth Ledford Date: Wednesday, March 25 April 10 Date: Wednesday, April 15 4:30 p.m. Location: Kelvin Smith Library, First 4:30 p.m. Location: Case Western Reserve Floor Location: Case Western Reserve University, Clark Hall, Room 309 Electronic literature presents and University, Clark Hall, Room 309 Kelly will challenge the audience to generates literary performances that A Niagara of new histories has think about what the humanities display, question and critique ways greeted the centenary of the curriculum will look like 10 years of reading and modes of literary outbreak of World War I, and none from now. How will advances in production in the digital age. This more impressive or widely-read than digital media change the ways that exhibition of electronic literature Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers: students learn about and make will display and discuss works of How Europe Went to War in 1914 sense of the humanities, and how electronic and print literature and (Harper, 2013). In his very title, should humanities departments bring to attention the technologies Clark paints a portrait of European begin changing their curricula to central to their production. statesmen asleep at the wheel, prepare students for advanced stumbling blindly into a war that thinking about the big ideas in the waking people would have avoided. humanities? The logic of this interpretation spreads responsibility for the missteps that led to war evenly AN AFTERNOON WITH PATRICIA COUNTER-CONSTITUTIONS: HOW among all participants, returning HARMAN A 21ST CENTURY CONSTITUTIONAL to interpretations dominant from REVOLUTION IN HUNGARY CLAIMED the mid-1920s to 1961 and causing Date: Friday, March 27 MEDIEVAL ROOTS major controversy in Germany in noon Lecturer: Kim Lane Scheppele particular. Ledford traces the history Location: Case Western Reserve of how historians have assessed Date: Thursday, April 9 University, Clark Hall, Room 206 diplomatic and moral responsibility 4:30 p.m. Bestselling author, Patricia Harman, for the outbreak of World War I from Location: Case Western Reserve 1914 to the present. will read from and discuss her latest University, Clark Hall, Room 309 book, The Reluctant Midwife, the story of a young nurse-midwife Since independence in 1989, in West Virginia during the Great nationalist Hungarians have argued Depression. An informal lunch with that the Holy Crown of St. Stephen be served. and associated doctrines should be at the core of Hungary’s constitution. Scheppele will discuss how the Crown is both a literal object given by the Pope to the first Christian king of Hungary, in the year 1000 and – since medieval times – a key symbolic touchstone in the constitution of state power.
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SIEGAL LIFELONG LEARNING SPRING KICKOFF
FEATURED SPEAKER Kickoff the spring semester at the Siegal Lifelong Program of Case MICHAEL J. FOREMAN Western Reserve University! CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY, RET., Join us for a distinguished lecture NASA ASTRONAUT featuring NASA astronaut, Captain Michael J. Foreman, U.S. Navy Retired. Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 He will explore the current state of 7 p.m. the U.S. space program, its future, and Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood influence on everyday life in America. He will also reflect on the space Cost: Free and open to the public program’s impact on engineering, medicine, and research.
BAKER-NORD A DAY AT THE UNIVERSITY DINNER PROGRAM THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF NEWTON D. BAKER THE STORY OF THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE Lecturers: John Grabowski, Tom Schedule: Suddes, Marian Morton, Ken Lecturer: Jeffrey Ullom 1:30–2 p.m. Ledford and Richard Baznik. John Grabowski, Newton D. Baker Date: Monday, February 16 Date: Sunday, April 19 and the Progressive Era: Defining a 5:30–8 p.m. 1:30–5:30 p.m. Man and an Era Location: Siegal Facility Location: Tinkham Veale 2–2:45 p.m. Beachwood University Center Tom Suddes, Cleveland’s Newton Cost: $40 (includes dinner) Cost: $45 D. Baker and John H. Clarke: Two Founded in 1915, the Cleveland Gold Democrats and the New Case Western Reserve University Play House remains the longest- Freedom—and New Deal invites the community for a day of running professional theater in lectures and discussion with faculty 2:45–3:30 p.m. the country, but its history has experts examining and celebrating Marian Morton, The Making of a never been studied by anyone the life and times of Newton D. Political Activist: Belle Sherwin outside of the institution itself. Baker, addressing his impact on and Woman Suffrage Jeffrey Ullom contextualizes the the intellectual and political life history of Cleveland’s famous of Northeast Ohio and beyond. 3:45–4:30 p.m. This event is open to all members Ken Ledford, Newton D. Baker and theater to look beyond the of the community. Each lecture the Zimmermann Telegram: From subjective legacy and explore how session includes time for questions. Neutrality to Interventionism and why this institution is able to This event is persevere decade after decade. co-sponsored by 4:30–5:15 p.m. Teaching Cleveland Dick Baznik, Newton D. Baker Digital and The City and the Creation of Cleveland Club of Cleveland. College
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THE INEVITABLE CITY: THE HERBERT AND MARIANNA LUXENBERG SIEGAL THE RESURGENCE OF NEW COLLEGE ISRAEL LECTURE ORLEANS AND THE FUTURE AN EVENING WITH ETGAR KERET: NILI ADLER MEMORIAL LECTURE OF URBAN AMERICA Etgar Keret Scott Cowen Featuring best-selling Israeli writer and award-winning Featured author and filmmaker, Etgar Keret 14th president of Date: Wednesday, March 25 | 7 p.m. Tulane University Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Date: Wednesday, February 18 Cost: Free and open to the public, 7 p.m. $18 preferred seating available Location: Siegal Spend an evening in discussion with Etgar Keret, prominent Israeli author Facility Beachwood and director. Keret is the author of Suddenly, A Knock on the Door; The Girl of the Fridge; Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God; Missing Kissinger; and Gaza Cost: Free and open Blues. Keret has received the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize to the public several times, the Chevalier medallion of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, $18 preferred and has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize and the Ministry of Culture’s seating available Cinema Prize. His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in After seven years over thirty languages. Keret’s new book, The Seven Good Years, a memoir, will of service as the president of Tulane be published in 2015. University, Cowen watched the Made possible through the support of the Herbert and Marianna Luxenberg devastation of his beloved New Siegal College Israel Lecture Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. Orleans at the hands of Hurricane Katrina. When federal, state, and city officials could not find their way to decisive action, Cowen, known for his YOU TOO CAN MASTER CHAMBER MUSIC LIKE A PRO! gutsy leadership, quickly partnered Faculty: with a coalition of civic, business, and Franklin Cohen, clarinet, Principal Cleveland Orchestra, CIM, ChamberFest nonprofit leaders looking to work Cleveland around the old institutions to revitalize and transform New Orleans. The Peter Salaff, violin, CIM, Cleveland Quartet Inevitable City presents 10 principles Annie Fullard, violin, CIM, Cavani Quartet that changed the game for this city, Lynne Ramsey, viola, CIM, Miro Quartet, Cleveland Orchestra, Panorámicos and, if adopted, can alter the curve for Michael Haber, cello, Cleveland Orchestra (retired) any business, endeavor, community— Peter Takacs, piano, Oberlin Conservatory and perhaps even a nation. He Mary Kay Robinson, flute- CWRU and CIM Chamber Music, Panorámicos envisions the book as a guide for people in other cities faced with the Date: Sunday, March 8 | 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. need for revitalization—such as Location: Case Western Reserve University, Harkness Chapel Detroit or Cleveland. Both cities, once epicenters of manufacturing, have Cost: $175 (includes lunch) been ravaged by the poor economy in This full day workshop for adults is designed for amateur musicians who want to recent years. refine their skills and have the opportunity perform and work with a star-studded Prior to serving as President if faculty of chamber music professionals and recording artists. Individuals and pre- Tulane, Cowen was a professor formed ensembles are welcome. Early registration is key for ensemble formation. and dean of the Weatherhead School The schedule will include: rehearsals, coaching, reading session and final concert. of Management at Case Western Coffee and lunch are provided. The event is sponsored by the Siegal Lifelong Reserve University Learning Program and the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University; and ACMP, the Chamber Music Network. www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 29 SPECIAL PROGRAMS & LECTURES
A BENEFIT CELEBRATION FOR Please consider showing your support by giving an LIFELONG LEARNING additional tax deductible, A LIFE DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY charitable donation to the program. Corporate Featuring insights from her new book, Epitaph and sponsorships are a discussion of how the gunfight at the O.K. Corral welcome. became entertainment for millions, by renowned author, Mary Doria Russell. Backer $10,000 Patron $5,000 Date: Monday, May 4 Friend $1,000 7:30 p.m. For more information Location: The Tinkham Veale University Center, please contact the Laura Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Room & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Cost: Base Admission: $75 per ticket Learning Program Private Dinner with Speaker: $250 per plate Brian Amkraut (100 percent of ticket is a tax deductible donation Executive Director supporting the Lifelong Learning Program) 216.368.0423 [email protected] Michelle L. Miller Join your friends, colleagues, and instructors in celebrating the Lifelong Learning Program! Assistant Director of Development Renowned author Mary Doria Russell will entertain and inspire with tales of writing, 216.368.8745 researching, and living with intellectual curiosity. Beloved instructors will be honored. [email protected]
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Margit Meissner was only 11 years This program is produced by the old when she heard a radio broadcast United States Holocaust Memorial of one of Hitler’s speeches; her first Museum in Washington, D.C. and encounter with Nazi propaganda. co-presented with the Maltz Museum The anti-Semitic rhetoric left an of Jewish Heritage, currently hosting indelible mark. State of Deception through March 15. That formative experience with biased This event is co-sponsored by the information has made her acutely United States Holocaust Memorial aware of how much easier it is to Museum. spread hate with today’s technology. THE HOLOCAUST AND Meissner will discuss her experiences PROPAGANDA: CONNECTING THE during World War II, including her PAST TO THE PRESENT daring escape from Paris on a bicycle as the Nazis invaded. She will also Lecturer: Margit Meissner speak about her years of service Date: Wednesday, March 11 teaching about the dangers of hate 7 p.m. speech and guiding tours of the United Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Cost: Free and open to the public traveling exhibition, State of Deception: $18 preferred seating available The Power of Nazi Propaganda.
A MAN IN HIS LIFE: REFLECTIONS ON THE POETRY OF SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR YEHUDA AMICHAI BY HIS DAUGHTER, EMANUELLA JEWISH LEARNING AND TEACHING Performer: Emanuella Amichai Date: July 20–23 Date: Tuesday, April 28 Spend four beautiful days of summer in Cleveland with 7 p.m. experts in Jewish history, theology, culture and Jewish Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood education. This conference is for Jewish educators, Cost: $18 in advance, $25 at the door communal professionals, and interested lifelong learners. Students will: A musical and theatrical journey based on the beloved poetry of Yehuda Amichai. The show incorporates • Learn with renowned scholars poetry reading, theatrical scenes based • Engage in intense study on Amichai’s poems, personal stories • Network and converse with fellow participants and biographical turning points in his • Deepen knowledge of Jewish history and culture life: his childhood in Germany, coming to Israel as a child, his recruitment to • Experience Cleveland’s music and arts scene the Palmach, his life in Jerusalem, the Details and registration will be available soon at www. loves of his life, his thoughts about case.edu/lifelonglearning. For more information, contact writing and more. Musical performances include those Alanna Cooper at 216.368.5686 or via email at Alanna. of Amichai’s poems, written by famous musicians such [email protected]. as Yoni Rechter, Yehudit Ravitz, Hanan Yovel, Moshe Vilansky and other famous Israeli musicians, as well as new musical compositions of Amichai’s poetry written especially for the show.
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Most courses will be at the Siegal Facility Beachwood unless otherwise noted.
DAYTIME LECTURES BETWEEN ETHNOGRAPHY AND ART: THE PHOTOS OF JEWS OF TSARIST RUSSIA AND THE S. AN-SKY’S EXPEDITIONS SOVIET UNION IN PHOTOS Lecturer: Alexander Ivanov Lecturers: Alexander Ivanov and Wednesday, March 11 Alanna Cooper Date: 7 p.m. Date: Tuesday, March 10 Alexander Valery Jewish Federation of 2–4 p.m. Location: Ivanov Dymshits Cleveland Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Visiting scholars, Alexander Cost: Free and open to the public Cost: Free and open to the public $18 preferred seating available $18 preferred seating available Ivanov and Valery Dymshits, occupy key administrative and From 1912-1914, S. An-sky set out on Through two fascinating sets of scholarly positions at Petersburg a series of famed expeditions to the photos, the speakers will shed light on Judaica Center, a research center Jewish Pale of Settlement to collect Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and the folk-tales, proverbs, ritual objects Soviet Union. Ivanov will discuss how of the European University of St. Petersburg Russia. and other artifacts of Jewish life. photos were used in the 1920s and Photographer Solomon Yudovin, who 1930s to construct an image of Soviet Their visit to Cleveland accompanied An-sky on these trips, Jewry, focusing on depictions of Jewish (March 9–15) is made possible took about 2,000 photos, a portion of agricultural colonization. Cooper will by the Jewish Federation which have been preserved until today. examine Turkestan Album, a collection of Cleveland and is planned Come learn about the innovative and of photographs of Central Asian artistic techniques Yudovin used to in conjunction with An-sky peoples, created by Tsarist officials create his rich and beautiful portrait in 1870, and show how Jews were expedition photo exhibit, of a people. represented as a minority population currently on display in the Roe that could forward the Russian colonial Green Gallery of the Jewish ETHNOGRAPHY AND FOLKLORE project in the region. Federation of Cleveland building. AT THE PETERSBURG JUDAICA CENTER OF THE EUROPEAN THE IMAGE OF THE SHTETL IN UNIVERSITY IN ST. PETERSBURG JEWISH LITERATURE EVENING LECTURES RUSSIA (IN RUSSIAN ONLY) Lecturer: Valery Dymshits Lecturers: Alexander Ivanov and FOLKLORE AND FOLK CULTURE OF Date: Wednesday, March 11 Valery Dymshits 10 a.m. EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY Date: Thursday, March 12 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Lecturer: Valery Dymshits 7 p.m. Cost: Free and open to the public Date: Tuesday, March 10 Location: Jewish Federation of $18 preferred seating available 7 p.m. Cleveland In early Yiddish literature, the shtetl Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public represented more than just a Cost: Free and open to the public $18 preferred seating available hometown. It was used to symbolize $18 preferred seating available Jewish life as it ought to be; where In this panel discussion, visiting family, community, language and home Jewish folk traditions evolved across scholars Alexander Ivanov and Valery were organically tied together. Soon, the globe in response to the varying Dymshits will share information this depiction of the shtetl took on cultural and linguistic environments in about the activities of the Petersburg standard images and cliché prose. This which Jews found themselves. What, Judaica Center of the European talk will examine key works of Yiddish then, is Jewish about Jewish folklore? University of St. Petersburg. Among poetry to show how the shtetl came to This talk will address this question other topics, they will address the be used as a literary trope. through a close look at a variety of ethnographic expeditions which they Yiddish folk-tales told among Eastern have organized and participated in as European Jewry. part of the center. This discussion will be held in Russian.
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STARS AND GALAXIES AT THE STELLAR MERGERS AND DAWN OF TIME INTERACTIONS: YES, VIRGINIA, Frontiers of Astronomy STARS DO COLLIDE is a free lecture series Lecturer: Volker Bromm Lecturer: Alison Sills that offers those with an Date: Thursday, March 5 8 p.m. Date: Thursday, April 16 interest in astronomy the 8 p.m. chance to learn about the Location: Cleveland Museum of Natural History Location: Cleveland Museum of latest research in the field. Cost: Free to the general public; Natural History These lectures are parking is available in the museum Cost: Free to the general public; sponsored by the lot for a $6 charge. parking is available in the museum lot for a $6 charge. Department of Astronomy How and when did the cosmic dark at Case Western Reserve ages end? This lecture will present Sills will discuss strong interactions University, through the the remarkable story of how the between stars in a variety of support of the Arthur S. first stars and galaxies formed a few environments. Despite the vast Holden, Sr. Endowment; hundred million years after the Big (average) interstellar distances, stars Bang. These first sources of light are social creatures and tend to live the Cleveland Museum of fundamentally transformed the in pairs, multiples, or groups. Under Natural History; and the early universe from an initially these circumstances, stars can, and Cleveland Astronomical very simple state to one of ever do, modify each other’s mass, radius, Society. increasing complexity. composition, and overall evolution through gravitational encounters Until now, the knowledge of this ranging from wind mass transfer in period of cosmic dawn relies on a binary system to complete stellar supercomputer simulations, but collisions and mergers. over the next decade, a number of new-generation observational Sills will show how such events facilities, such as the James Webb can change our understanding of Space Telescope and the Giant particular stellar systems, how Magellan Telescope will test that they can explain the properties understanding. Completing the of many unusual objects, and century-old quest, researchers will how interactions could change finally be able to open up a direct the environment in which these window into the very beginning of stars live. cosmic star and galaxy formation. The emphasis for this talk will be on the modelling of these interactions. Sills will demonstrate how a combination of stellar evolution, stellar dynamics, and hydrodynamics can bring some understanding to these complicated systems.
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SPRING 2015 The TZION lecture series marries a commitment to exploring the connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, with critical thinking about Zionism and the Jewish State. Students learn from expert scholars about the history and ideas of Jewish nationalism, politics and the challenges of creating and maintaining a Jewish State. The series provides a forum for serious examination of the issues, challenging participants’ ideas and opinions, while opening the possibility for reaching new and deeper connections and understandings. Each session includes a lecture by an expert speaker followed by dinner and discussion.
SERIES KICKOFF
A CONFOUNDING ELECTORAL Haim Watzman, author, Jerusalem SYSTEM: DANGER AND Report columnist and concerned Israeli OPPORTUNITY IN ISRAEL citizen in good standing, will offer a quick briefing on Israel’s electoral Lecturer: Haim Watzman system, its historical roots, how it Date: Monday, February 9 has worked over the course of Israel’s 7 p.m. history and how it will play out in the Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood coming election. Cost: $10 (this does NOT include dinner and price is only applicable to this individual lecture in the series)
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SPRING 2015 DINNER PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Dates: Mondays, 5:30–8 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood 5:30 p.m.–Coffee and Sign-In Cost: $98 for all four sessions 6 p.m.–Lecture $36 per session 7 p.m.–Dinner with Lecturers 7:30 p.m.–Q&A and Dessert
ISRAEL AND GERMANY: FROM MODERN ISRAELI ART OR MODERN HIP-HOPPIN’ JEWS: ON THE BIBLE SHOAH TO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP ART IN ISRAEL? AND ISRAELI POP MUSIC Lecturer: Jay Geller Lecturer: Samantha Baskind Lecturer: Shari Lowin Date: Monday, March 16 Date: Monday, April 27 Date: Monday, May 18 During 1948-1949, In the land of Israel, The first two both the State of even while it was generations of Israel and the Federal still Palestine, secular Zionist Israelis Republic of Germany 20th century art maintained an abiding were founded. Both oscillated between connection to the new countries were two poles: modernist Bible even as they deeply marked by Tel Aviv and rejected its religious the legacy of the Nazi regime and the traditionalist Jerusalem. authority. By contrast, popular wisdom horrors of the Holocaust. would have many think that for the Looking at paintings, sculptures, current secular generation, the Bible is However, one was a home for Jewish and photographs, this both unfamiliar and irrelevant. victims of Nazi persecution, and the lecture explores the various social and other was largely populated by former cultural conditions in which this art was This is not the case. Evidence of the perpetrators. They were natural produced. Bible’s influence can be found in antagonists, yet drawn together by the contemporary rock, hip-hop and rap What kind of meanings can be read in circumstances of their origins. Mutual music. Israeli pop stars who are fiercely this art? What can be learned from the need tempered distrust, and a working irreligious, are actually mining Jewish styles that modern Israeli artists used relationship developed. Within two sacred texts for use in their art: providing and the subject matter they chose? generations, West Germany had become an unexpected window to explore Israeli Israel’s closest European ally. culture as both secular and Jewish. By the turn of the 21st century, thousands of Germans lived in Israel and tens of thousands of Israelis made their home in Germany. How did the legacy of the Holocaust and exigencies of international politics and economics bring them together? What is their relationship like today?
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Except where indicated lectures will be at the Siegal Facility Beachwood | 26500 Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood OH 44122
THE INEVITABLE CITY: THE RESURGENCE OF NEW ORLEANS AND THE FUTURE OF URBAN AMERICA Scott Cowen Featured author and 14th president of Tulane University Date: Wednesday, February 18 | 7 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available
After seven years of service as the president of Tulane University, Cowen watched the devastation of his beloved New Orleans at the hands of Hurricane Katrina. When federal, state, and city officials could not find their way to decisive action, Cowen, known for his gutsy leadership, quickly partnered with a coalition of civic, business, and nonprofit leaders looking to work around the old institutions to revitalize and transform New Orleans. The Inevitable City presents 10 principles that changed the game for this city, and, if adopted, can alter the curve for any business, endeavor, community—and perhaps even a nation. He envisions the book as a guide for people in other cities faced with the need for revitalization—such as Detroit or Cleveland. Both cities, once epicenters of manufacturing, have been ravaged by the poor economy in recent years. Prior to serving as President if Tulane, Cowen was a professor and dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
STEREOTYPING AMERICAN JEWS: SONG, STAGE, AND SCREEN Daniel Goldmark Date: Wednesday, February 25 | 7 p.m., Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available Composers and songwriters on vaudeville, Broadway and eventually in Hollywood cultivated and shaped a vast arsenal of musical codes for scenes involving Jews in the early 1900s. By the time the sound film era began in Hollywood—ushered in by the most famous Jewish assimilation film ever, The Jazz Singer (1927)—the sound of American Jewry was not only cliché, it was a stereotype.
FOLKLORE AND FOLK CULTURE OF EASTERN JEWRY Valery Dymshits Date: Tuesday, March 10 | 7 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available Jewish folk traditions evolved across the globe in response to the varying cultural and linguistic environments in which Jews found themselves. What, then, is Jewish about Jewish folklore? This talk will address this question through a close look at a variety of Yiddish folk-tales told among Eastern European Jewry.
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Except where indicated lectures will be at the Siegal Facility Beachwood | 26500 Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood OH 44122
BETWEEN ETHNOGRAPHY AND ART: THE PHOTOS OF S. AN-SKY’S EXPEDITIONS Alexander Ivanov Date: Wednesday, March 11 | 7 p.m. Location: Jewish Federation of Cleveland Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available From 1912-1914, S. An-sky set out on a series of famed expeditions to the Jewish Pale of Settlement to collect folk-tales, proverbs, ritual objects and other artifacts of Jewish life. Photographer Solomon Yudovin, who accompanied An-sky on these trips, took about 2,000 photos, a portion of which have been preserved until today. Come learn about the innovative and artistic techniques Yudovin used to create his rich and beautiful portrait of a people.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE: JEWS AND THE MEDIA Jane Eisner Date: Wednesday, March 18 | 7 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available When Abraham Cahan was editor of the Yiddish Forward a century ago, he could leave his office and stroll through the Lower East Side immigrant community, meeting and greeting his readers. Now, Jewish media faces a radically different landscape: spread out, diverse and highly competitive. Beyond the existential challenges of journalism today, Jewish media also must adjust to the changes in American Jewish life. Cahan’s mission was to help immigrants become Americans; today’s media must explain Jewish life to Americans. This event is co-sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish News.
AN EVENING WITH ETGAR KERET: NILI ADLER MEMORIAL LECTURE Etgar Keret Featured best-selling Israeli writer and award-winning filmmaker Date: Wednesday, March 25 | 7 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available Spend an evening in discussion with Etgar Keret, prominent Israeli author and director. Keret is the author of Suddenly, A Knock on the Door; The Girl of the Fridge; Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God; Missing Kissinger; and Gaza Blues. Keret has received the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize several times, the Chevalier medallion of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize and the Ministry of Culture’s Cinema Prize. His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in over thirty languages. Keret’s new book, The Seven Good Years, a memoir, will be published in 2015.artistic techniques Yudovin used to create his rich and beautiful portrait of a people. Made possible through the support of the Herbert and Marianna Luxenberg Siegal College Israel Lecture Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
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Except where indicated lectures will be at the Siegal Facility Beachwood | 26500 Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood OH 44122
CLEVELAND TV TALES: AN EVENING WITH AUTHORS MIKE & JANICE OLSZEWSKI Mike and Janice Olszewski Date: Wednesday, May 6 | 7 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public, $18 preferred seating available
Cleveland TV Tales is a delightful book about simpler times before the Internet, before high- definition TV, even before color TV. It’s about a time when TV had just three channels to choose from, and the biggest celebrities in Cleveland were an outrageous movie host named Ghoulardi, a gentle elf named Barnaby and a tough-as-nails newswoman named Dorothy Fuldheim. These pioneering entertainers invented television programming before people watched from their living rooms. This lecture takes participants back to revisit these early days of local television. Book signing to follow discussion.
REMAPPING SURVIVAL: JEWISH MEMORIES OF DISPLACEMENT, TRAUMA, AND RESCUE IN SIBERIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND IRAN Atina Grossman Date: Wednesday, May 13 | 7 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public $18 preferred seating available This lecture addresses a transnational Holocaust story that remarkably—despite several decades of intensive scholarly and public attention to the history and memory of the Shoah—has remained essentially untold. The majority of the Jewish refugees, who constituted the saved remnant of East European Jewry, survived the war because they had been deported to life in Stalin’s Soviet Union, partially supported by a relief life-line established between Teheran and Central Asia. This talk seeks to integrate these key, but largely unexamined experiences, into our understanding of the Shoah; and thereby, remap the landscape of persecution, survival, death, relief and rescue during and after World War II. The discussion traces refugee routes and experiences from Poland to Siberia to Central Asia, back to Poland, into the DP camps, and eventually to new homes in the United States, Israel and throughout the globe. This lecture made possible by the Association of Jewish Studies.
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JEWS OF TSARIST RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION THE IMAGE OF THE SHTETL IN IN PHOTOS JEWISH LITERATURE Lecturers: Alexander Ivanov and Alanna Cooper Lecturer: Valery Dymshits Date: Tuesday, March 10 | 2–4 p.m. Date: Wednesday, March 11 | 10 a.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: Free and open to the public Cost: Free and open to the public $18 preferred seating available $18 preferred seating available Through two fascinating sets of photos, the speakers In early Yiddish literature, the shtetl represented more will shed light on Jewish life Tsarist Russia and the than just a hometown. It was used to symbolize Jewish Soviet Union. Ivanov will discuss how photos were used life as it ought to be; where family, community, language in the 1920s and 1930s to construct an image of Soviet and home were organically tied together. Soon, this Jewry, focusing on depictions of Jewish agricultural depiction of the shtetl took on standard images and colonization. Cooper will examine Turkestan Album, a cliché prose. This talk will examine key works of Yiddish collection photographs of Central Asian peoples, created poetry to show how the shtetl came to be used as a by Tsarist officials in 1870, and show how Jews were literary trope. represented as a minority population that could forward the Russian colonial project in the region.
WHY DO MEN STILL DOMINATE JEWISH JEWS, GERMANS AND ALLIES: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS LEADERSHIP ROLES? IN OCCUPIED GERMANY Lecturer: Jane Eisner Lecturer: Atina Grossman Date: Thursday, March 19 | noon–2 p.m. Date: Thursday, May 14 | noon–2 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $25 (includes lunch) Cost: $25 (includes lunch) At a time when Jewish women are making enormous Once World War II ended, what was the nature of the professional strides in America, leadership in the experiences of she’rith hapleta, the saved remnant of organized Jewish community is still dominated by men. Europe’s decimated Jewish communities? This lecture For example, there are more Jewish women on the will address the small group of remaining German Jews U.S. Supreme Court (two) than running the 18 largest and 250,000 Eastern European Jew who were gathered Jewish federations in the country (one). Why does this as Displaced Persons in Germany – the blood stained imbalance persistent? How is it being addressed? What land of the perpetrators – paying careful attention to are the implications for the broader charity sector? the details of everyday encounters, their complex and fraught relationships—both hostile and harmonious, distant and sometimes intimate—with defeated Germans and victorious Allies will be examined.
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WINTER INSTITUTE: SARASOTA, FL FEES: (airfare not included) Single Occupancy: $2,325 March 8–10, 2015 Double Occupancy: $1,975 Enjoy three days in Florida with top-notch scholars who are ready to share Lunch only: $898 their passion and experience in the fields of music, art and science. Five star Space is limited so register today! accommodations and foods will be provided by the Hyatt Regency Sarasota. A 50 percent deposit is required to The institute offers both intense and intimate seminars with expert faculty reserve a space. To register, visit and a community of like-minded learners. The relaxing environment of sunny www.case.edu/lifelonglearning or Sarasota combined with the intellectually stimulating sessions will nourish call 216.368.2090. both mind and body. Music & Art Track HOLLYWOOD'S MUSICALS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION: ART AND POWER IN FRENCH PAINTERS IMPERIAL ROME Donald Rosenberg AND SCULPTORS OF former music & dance critic for the THE 18TH CENTURY Maggie Popkin cleveland plain dealer and incoming assistant professor of roman art, editor of early music america magazine Catherine Scallen case western reserve university The silver screen has embraced musicals department chair and professor The Roman Empire stretched across the since the moment silent films stepped of art and art history, case western reserve university entire Mediterranean world and beyond, aside to make way for talkies. We’ll but the city of Rome always stood at the explore works that Hollywood created The eighteenth century in France before symbolic center. These lectures look at from scratch, including movies featuring the French Revolution was a fascinating the art and architecture of the Eternal such icons as Fred Astaire, Ginger era. Increased bourgeois affluence City under three of Rome’s greatest Rogers, Maurice Chevalier, and Jeanette and global trade led to increased emperors, who shaped Rome in ways MacDonald, and featuring songs by the consumption by many in the society, that still resonate today. We will focus Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and while Enlightenment philosophy and on Augustus, Rome’s first emperor; Hart, Cole Porter and a host of others. science led to new ideas about politics, Trajan, who led Rome to its greatest religion, society, and nature. Often wealth and geographic dominion; and overlooked, however, are the equally Constantine, who presided over the th captivating artists of 18 century France, Empire’s shift to Christianity. who were innovators in their own realm. We will look closely at the art and careers of notable French painters and sculptors, including Antoine Watteau and Jean- Baptiste Simeon Chardin, Clodion (Claude Michel) and Jean-Antoine Houdon, Francois Boucher and Jean-Honore Fragonard, finishing with two women who broke through to professional success, Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun and Adelaide Labille-Guiard.
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Origins Science Track The Origins Science Scholars Program is presented by the Institute for the SCHEDULE (subject to change) Science of Origins (ISO), a partnership of several Northeast Ohio research and Day 1: educational institutions, led by Case Western Reserve University and the Origin of the Universe Cleveland Museum of Natural History. During this unique program, members of the community engage with each other and with leading scholars to Origin of Life investigate rapidly developing areas of origins science. Origin and History of Oxygen in the Atmosphere Glenn Starkman Joseph LaManna Origin of Hominids/Genus Homo PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY & Day 2: DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION BIOPHYSICS, AND NEUROSCIENCES, FORMER AND RESEARCH IN COSMOLOGY AND CHAIR OF ANATOMY AT CASE WESTERN Origin of Galaxies & Stars ASTROPHYSICS, AND DIRECTOR OF THE RESERVE UNIVERSITY AND THE JEANNETTE M. Principles of Evolutionary Theory & INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF ORIGINS AT AND JOSEPH S. SILBER PROFESSOR FOR THE CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY STUDY OF BRAIN SCIENCES the Evolution of Animals Origin of Mitochondria and Biological Patricia Princehouse Cynthia Beall Energy Production/Use DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH FOR THE INSTITUTE DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN Recent Human Evolution Under the FOR THE SCIENCE OF ORIGINS, AND DIRECTOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT Pressures of Climate OF THE PROGRAM IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Day 3: Origin of the Solar System & the Early Earth Evolution of Mammals/Primates Role of Oxygen in Health and Disease (Extreme Environments, Diet & Obesity, Brain & Heart Vascular Disease) Recent Human Evolution Under the Pressures of Infectious Disease
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HAWAIIAN ORIGINS: FROM THE DEPTHS TO THE SKIES A Tour of The Big Island, Maui and Molokai, Hawaii
May 11–20 FEES: (airfare not included) Single Occupancy: $10,345 with Glenn Starkman Double Occupancy: $8,995 professor of physics and astronomy, Estimated fees include lodging, ground director of the center for education transportation, entrance fees, and some meals. and research in cosmology and A $2,000 deposit is required to reserve a space. astrophysics, and director of the institute for the science of origins ACCOMMODATIONS: at case western reserve university Hotel Moloka’I, Molokai Island and Royal Lahaina, Maui Island Hilo Hawaiian Hotel, Big Island with Patricia Princehouse Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, Big Island director of outreach for the institute for the science of origins, and director of the INCLUDED MEALS: breakfast—daily, program in evolutionary biology at case lunches—six, dinners—four western reserve university Space is limited so register today! Join faculty experts for this amazing opportunity to travel to the islands of Hawaii and experience all that they have to offer from a unique, scientific perspective! Enjoy visits to the Big Island, Maui, and Molokai, with special stops at the telescopes of Mauna Kea, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and the Halawa Valley. Participants will also experience a variety of Hawaiian cultural events with deluxe accommodations and gourmet cuisine.
Itinerary: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) MONDAY, MAY 11 with a volcanologist, including Lava Tree State Fly independently to Molokai Island and Park and a picnic-style dinner on a black sand transfer to the Hotel Molokai. Join the group beach. this evening for a welcome dinner in the hotel’s restaurant overlooking the ocean. SUNDAY, MAY 17 Check out and drive along Crater Rim Road TUESDAY, MAY 12 to Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park. Hike Tour Molokai Museum, enjoy a picnic lunch at with a local geologist and see Steaming Bluff, a private home with a local Molokai family, and Thurston Lava Tube, Halemaumau Fire Pit, explore the Halawa Valley. and Jaggar Museum. Continue along the Kona coast and stop to observe green sea turtles. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 Learn about traditional Hawaiian lifestyles at In Pala’au State Park, see Kalaupapa Lookout Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical and a lava flow from Kauhako Crater. Visit a Park before checking into the Mauna Lani Bay macadamia farm. Then, take a ferry to the Hotel. island of Maui and check into the Makena Beach and Golf Resort. MONDAY, MAY 18 Take four-wheel-drive vehicles to the summit THURSDAY, MAY 14 of Mauna Kea and take a telescope tour at the Tour Haleakala National Park with a local Observatory Complex. Enjoy sunset and dinner naturalist. Tour Pan-STAARS by special private at the summit. After sunset, star gaze from arrangement. telescopes at the Visitors Information Station. FRIDAY, MAY 15 TUESDAY, MAY 19 With a naturalist guide, tour the Maui Ocean Visit the Kaloko Cloud Forest with a Center, a three acre tropical reef aquarium and horticulturalist. Free afternoon for marine science center. Optional Polynesian independent exploration. In the evening, gather Luau in the evening. for a memorable farewell paina (luau-style SATURDAY, MAY 16 party) with a local family. Visit ‘Iao Valley State Monument and WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 Kepaniwai Park’s Heritage Gardens. Fly to Check out of the hotel. Independent Hilo on the Big Island and check into the Hilo departures. Hawaiian Hotel. Afternoon lava excursion 42 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL
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ART, HISTORY AND OTHER ADVENTURES: A Tour of Berlin, Germany
May 21–29 FEES: (airfare not included) Single Occupancy: $6,690 with Kenneth Ledford Double Occupancy: $5,895 associate professor of history and law Estimated fees include lodging, ground at case western reserve university transportation, entrance fees, and some meals. and A $2,000 deposit is required to reserve a space. with Catherine Scallen ACCOMMODATIONS: The Westin Grand Berlin (Five Star) andrew w. mellon associate professor in the humanities and chair for the INCLUDED MEALS: breakfast—daily, department of art history and art lunches—five, dinners—two This trip is a rare opportunity to tour Berlin Space is limited so register today! with faculty experts in both European art and German history. Enjoy a week-long journey gathering insights and awareness into a city with a dynamic history of art and culture. Explore a variety of museums and locations, experience a German concert, dine on cuisine unique to the area, and see so much more. Both Ledford and Scallen have extensive experience and contacts in Germany. Join them for a once in a lifetime visit to this European capital.
Itinerary: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) THURSDAY, MAY 21 MONDAY, MAY 25 Depart the United States on independent Pass through Gendarmenmarkt en route overnight flights to Berlin. to Museum Island and enjoy an overview of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s work. Visit Altes FRIDAY, MAY 22 Museum to see the rotunda, Pergamon Arrive in Berlin and transfer independently Museum, and Neues Museum. Optional to the Westin Grand Berlin. Orientation evening concert or opera. walking tour along the Unter den Linden to Pariser Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, TUESDAY, MAY 26 followed by a welcome dinner near the Holocaust Memorial, Gemaldegalerie, Neue hotel. Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof. SATURDAY, MAY 23 WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Day trip to Dresden: Frauenkirche, Old Humboldtbox and Stadtschloss Master collection, and Militarhistorische site, followed by a walk through the Museum der Bundeswehr. Marx-Engels Platz, Nikolaikirche, and Alexanderplatz. Continue by bus to the THURSDAY, MAY 28 Berlin Wall Memorial. Optional tour of the Berggruen Museum, cruise on the Spree Jewish Museum. with lunch, and East Side Gallery, followed by an independent afternoon. Optional tour SUNDAY, MAY 24 to the Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in Treptower Day trip to Potsdam: Sanssouci Park with Park and/or the Deutsch-Russisches Neues Palais, Schloss Sanssouci, the Museum in Karlshorst. Gather in the Glienicker Brucke, lunch at Jagdschloss evening for a guided tour and farewell Grunewald, and Museum of the Allies. dinner atop the Reichstag. FRIDAY, MAY 29 Check out of the hotel. Independent flight departures.
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Everyone has a story to tell, but it’s often difficult to figure out how to tell it best. Where should it begin and end? What are the story’s most urgent points? And how can we entice our readers to keep with it until the end? Lori Compton, who writes personal essays and fiction, thrives on working through these questions with her students to help them produce great writing.
How much writing experience do What are some of the challenges your students typically have? your students face? It runs the gamut. For some, writing It is hard to write through the heat. LORI COMPTON is a serious hobby and they’ve taken New writers tend to turn away many writing workshops. I’ve had from the parts of their stories TALKS ABOUT other students who have never that are most painful or difficult to written anything meant to share recount. They often end on some LEARNING TO with others. I’ve learned that the sort of positive note like, “. . . and best writers are sometimes those that is how I learned to be strong.” WRITE who have no experience. They seem I encourage them to tell things as less self-conscious and their words they are. Inevitably, the truth is most flow more freely. compelling. Why do people take your course? Has teaching helped your own What are they hoping to get out writing? of it? Sometimes, I feel jealous of my Lori Compton will be teaching Some are looking for help with a students, thinking that I wish I could Write Your Story: The Art of specific writing project. Others don’t have written that! A woman from Personal Narrative have much purpose at all, and are Korea once took my class to work on just doing it for fun. But once they improving her English. She struggled Date: Tuesdays start to write, they often realize they with the language, but was a terrific beginning March 3 have important stories to tell. writer because her word-choice 3–5 p.m. was so telling, so brutally honest. What makes a story important? Location: I remember that she described a We tend to think of a story as Siegal Beachwood Facility family member by writing, “He was important if it has historical value. as quiet a vegetable.” That was See p. 73 for details Few would doubt that the story of just great! I’ve had a hard time not a survivor who lived through the plagiarizing it. Holocaust in hiding is an important one. But there are mundane stories about everyday experiences that are important too. One of my students described an incident about her mother displaying drawings she had created when she was in elementary school. When a simple incident like this one is told well, with honesty, you can learn a lot about childhood and about family relationships.
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“A lot of people express surprise when I tell them that there is so much to see and do for Jewish tourists in Germany,” remarks Jay H. Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University. This spring, Geller will lead a trip to Jewish Germany together with Alanna Cooper, director of Jewish lifelong learning at the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. For many people, the shadow of the Holocaust looms so large that they won’t consider a trip to Germany. But for Geller, who lived there while conducting research for his book, Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945- 1953, travel to Germany provides a rich perspective on the Jewish past and JAY GELLER the complex Jewish present. What views of Germany will you Who are the Jews who live in DISCUSSES provide trip-participants? Germany today? GERMANY’S We will see historical Jewish Since 1991, at least 150,000 Jews Germany, and Jewish life in from the former Soviet Union have JEWS IN Germany today. We will also see settled in Germany. They joined a how non-Jewish Germans have society already built by the children come to relate to their country’s and grandchildren of Jewish DIALOGUE Jewish past. Among the places Holocaust survivors from Poland. In we’ll visit are remnants of prewar addition, some 15,000 Israelis live in WITH HISTORY German Jewish history including Berlin alone. They even have their Rashi’s medieval synagogue in own radio broadcasts, and there are Worms, and Berlin’s Old Jewish thousands of American Jews who The Jewish Heritage Trip to Quarter. We will experience the live and work in Germany too! Germany will be held on legacy of the Holocaust through What about the challenges of living June 4–July 14. the world-renowned Liebsekind as a Jew in Germany today? For information about Jewish Museum (as well as other fees and itinerary, call monuments). We’ll also get a Of course, it’s not always easy to 216.368.2090. taste the vibrant Jewish life in be Jewish in Germany. There are Germany today. lots of options for those who seek Space is limited, so reserve an active Jewish life in Germany. What sort of Jewish life is there in your spot today! Nevertheless, anti-Semitism Germany today? remains an issue, especially as Over the last 25 years, Germany’s Germany accommodates more Jewish community has been the immigrants from the Middle East. fastest-growing in all of Europe. Jews who live in Germany navigate We’ll get a chance to see some a complex, but interesting world. I’m of the new, trendy Jewish art looking forward to exploring it with galleries, bookstores, schools, participants on our upcoming trip! and restaurants. There’s even a rabbinical seminary in the suburbs of Berlin.
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THE HERITAGE OF JEWISH LIFE IN GERMANY: A Tour of Frankfurt and Berlin
June 4–14 FEES: (airfare not included) Single Occupancy: $7,190 with Jay H. Geller Double Occupancy: $6,195 samuel rosenthal chair in jewish studies Estimated fees include lodging, ground and associate professor of history, case transportation, entrance fees, and some meals. western reserve university A $2,000 deposit is required to reserve a space. and ACCOMMODATIONS: with Alanna E. Cooper Hilton Frankfurt (Five Star) director of jewish lifelong learning, laura The Westin Grand, Berlin (Five Star) and alvin siegal lifelong learning program INCLUDED MEALS: breakfast—daily, at case western reserve university lunches—five, dinners—three Tour modern Germany through a Jewish Space is limited so register today! lens, examining the heights and depths of the German Jewish experience. Participants will visit the remnants of medieval Ashkenaz, go in search of the origins of the Rothschild dynasty, see new structures commemorating the proud and tragic legacy of German Jewry, and experience Jewish life in today’s Germany. Geller, an expert on German and Jewish history, has been going back and forth to Germany for over 20 years and enjoys sharing his passion for history with others. Cooper, an anthropologist, has led Jewish Heritage tours in Central Europe and Asia.
Itinerary: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) THURSDAY, JUNE 4 TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Depart the United States on independent Travelers will participate in, From Division overnight flights to Frankfurt. to Unity, a walking tour of Berlin, including the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Unter FRIDAY, JUNE 5 den Linden, Pergamon Museum, DDR Arrive in Frankfurt and transfer Museum, Alexanderplatz, and innumerable independently to the Hilton Frankfurt. The other historic sites. afternoon is free to relax. Gather in the evening for a Shabbat dinner and a talk by WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 Geller, From Ashkenaz to Germania: Jews in Walking tour of Jewish Berlin, including Germany, Jews in Frankfurt. Centrum Judaicum-Neue Synagogue, the Scheunenviertel, and the Holocaust SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Memorial. Morning at leisure. Optional Shabbat services at West End Synagogue (Freiherr- THURSDAY, JUNE 11 vom-Stein-Str. 30). In the afternoon, Cooper leads a discussion on Monuments, visit the Neuer Borneplatz Memorial and Memory and the Holocaust. Then visit Judisches Museum, with a walking tour of Checkpoint Charlie and Daniel Liebeskind’s central Frankfurt. Judisches Museum in Berlin. SUNDAY, JUNE 7 FRIDAY, JUNE 12 Day trip to Worms: visit Rashi House, Rashi Day trip to Potsdam: Sanssouci palace, Synagogue, and Judengasse. Dutch Quarter (Hollandisches Viertel), Schloss Cecilienhof (Home of the Potsdam MONDAY, JUNE 8 Conference), and Einstein Tower. Attend a talk by Geller, Berlin: Jews and the Modern Metropolis. Transfer to the airport SATURDAY, JUNE 13 and fly to Berlin. Check into the Westin Free day to explore Berlin on your own. Grand Berlin. Gather tonight for a farewell group dinner. SUNDAY, JUNE 14 Check out of the hotel. Independent departures.
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CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY IN AMSTERDAM: A Tour of Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 21–30 FEES: (airfare not included) Single Occupancy: $6,990 with Stuart J. Youngner, MD Double Occupancy: $5,895 susan e watson professor and chair, Estimated fees include lodging, ground department of bioethics, cwru school transportation, entrance fees, and some meals. of medicine A $2,000 deposit is required to reserve a space. Not your ordinary trip to The Netherlands. ACCOMMODATIONS: On this tour you will visit an Amsterdam Amsterdam American Hotel (Four Star) coffeeshop with a world-renowned criminologist. Visit the Red Light district on INCLUDED MEALS: breakfast—daily, a guided tour with a former prostitute. This lunches—four, dinners—three educational travel program will examine Space is limited so register today! the contrasting ways two wealthy liberal democracies, the United States and the Netherlands, handle intractable social problems such as prostitution, recreational drugs, and medical ethics. The United States tends to view social problems in black and white and attempts to eliminate them. Judging that elimination is not feasible, Dutch policies focus on harm reduction. Do U.S. policies cause more harm than good? Are the Dutch sliding down a slippery slope? We examine these questions with an immersion in the Dutch culture that is a fascinating amalgam of individual liberty and tolerance nested in a strong social solidarity that has grown out of a historic struggle to reclaim land from water.
Itinerary: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) SUNDAY, JUNE 21 FRIDAY, JUNE 26 Depart the United States on independent This morning, attend a talk by Youngner overnight flights to Amsterdam. and a Dutch physician on medical ethics and the Dutch Euthanasia Policy. Tour the MONDAY, JUNE 22 world-renowned Rijksmuseum and Van Arrive in Amsterdam and transfer Gogh Museum. Optional visit to the Anne independently to the Amsterdam American Frank House. Hotel. Gather with the group in the afternoon for a walking tour of Amsterdam, SATURDAY, JUNE 27 followed by a private boat tour through the Visit an Amsterdam coffeeshop where the canals and a welcome reception. sale of marijuana is legally tolerated. Meet with the owner and a criminologist who will TUESDAY, JUNE 23 discuss drug policy. Free afternoon. Take an excursion into the Dutch countryside to learn about the Netherlands’ SUNDAY, JUNE 28 constant battle to reclaim land from the Day trip to Hague. Tour the Binnenhof, the sea, as well as its rich maritime history. heart of Dutch politics for centuries; the This evening, attend an optional concert. Peace Palace currently occupied by the UN International Court of Justice; and The WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Hague Municipal Museum. Day trip to Delft to see artisans creating the famous Delftware. Also visit Vermeer’s MONDAY, JUNE 29 studio, the Prinsenhof Museum, and Visit the Verzetsmuseum (Dutch Nieuwe Kerk (New Church). Resistance Museum) and take a behind- the-scenes tour of the Muziektheater, THURSDAY, JUNE 25 home of the Dutch Opera and National Enjoy a morning at leisure for independent Ballet. Gather this evening for a festive exploration. In the afternoon, take a walking farewell dinner. tour of Amsterdam’s “hidden” churches, followed by a visit to the Red Light District TUESDAY, JUNE 30 to learn about Amsterdam’s approach to Check out of the hotel. Independent flight regulating the prostitution industry. departures www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 47 EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL
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MUSIC AND THEATER FESTIVALS IN THE UK: A Tour of England and Scotland, United Kingdom
August 8–17 FEES: (airfare not included) Single Occupancy: with Donald Rosenberg Estimated All locations–$8,990 fees include former music & dance critic for the Scotland only–$5,790 lodging, ground cleveland plain dealer and incoming editor London only–$5,090 transportation, of early music america magazine select Double Occupancy: performance Enjoy the Edinburgh International Festival All locations–$7,195 tickets and and The BBC Proms in London during an Scotland only–$4,695 some meals. eight night journey through the United London only–$4,395 Kingdom with Donald Rosenberg. The A $2,000 deposit is required to reserve a space. itinerary will include tickets for specific performances during the daytime and ACCOMMODATIONS: evenings at both festivals, with free time Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh (Four Star) available for viewing other performances Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt, on your own or independent sightseeing. London (Four Star) The London component will include performances at the Globe Theatre, as INCLUDED MEALS: breakfast—daily, well as the Proms. The group will attend lunches—three, dinners—three a performance with the Cleveland-based, Space is limited so register today! Apollo’s Fire.
Itinerary: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 Depart the United States on independent Travel by train from Edinburgh to London overnight flights to Edinburgh, Scotland. and check into the Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt. Take a guided walking tour of SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 the theater district that stood in Elizabeth Arrive in Edinburgh and transfer times, including a visit to re-created Globe independently to the Sheraton Grand Hotel Theatre. Enjoy a pre-theater dinner at & Spa. The afternoon is free to relax. Gather a local restaurant, followed by a theater in the evening for a lecture by Rosenberg performance at Globe Theater. and introduction to the course before a welcome dinner at a local restaurant. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 Take a walking tour of sites where MONDAY, AUGUST 10 Shakespeare once lived and wrote, Guided tour of Edinburgh Castle, followed including the Middle Temple Hall. Enjoy by a walking tour of Edinburgh’s old town, lunch at a historic tavern in central London. including St. Giles Cathedral, Holyrood Afternoon excursion to Hampton Court Palace’s Royal collection, and lunch at a Palace. This evening attend a BBC Proms local restaurant. In the evening, attend Concert. an Edinburgh International Festival music performance. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 Attend a BBC Proms Concert performed by TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 hometown orchestra Apollo’s Fire. Possible Drive to Roslin and visit the Rosslyn Chapel reception with Apollo’s Fire musicians and and take a guided tour of the nearby 15th- director included. century Roslin Castle. Return to Edinburgh for a private visit with lunch at Jupiter SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 Artland, a contemporary art park and Free morning and afternoon for gallery. In the evening, attend an Edinburgh independent exploration. In the evening, International Festival theater performance. gather for a festive farewell dinner. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 MONDAY, AUGUST 17 Free morning and afternoon for Check out of the hotel. Independent independent exploration. In the evening, departures. attend an Edinburgh International Festival opera performance. 48 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning X
Mini MED SCHOOL
Medical School for the rest of us
Learn how your body works and how new medical “This class offered more information breakthroughs may affect you in the Case Western Reserve about medicine in one month than University School of Medicine’s Mini Med School. The most people get out of their doctors in a lifetime.” Spring 2015 session begins April 29 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Space is limited. No math or science background is necessary. Lectures are in plain English and there are no exams! All sessions are led by faculty experts from Case Western Reserve University.
Medicine: Viral Epidemics Wednesday, April 29 Host: Robert A. Salata, MD; Professor of Medicine
Psychiatry: Personal Insights into Domestic Terrorists Wednesday, May 6 Host: Phillip Resnick, MD; Professor of Psychiatry
Hematology and Oncology: Chronic Leukemias Wednesday, May 13 Host: Paolo F. Caimi, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine
Neurology: Deep Brain Stimulation Wednesday, May 20 Host: Benjamin L. Walter, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology
Biology: Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Wednesday, May 27 Host: Arnold I. Caplan, PhD; Professor of Biology, General Medicine Sciences, Pathology and Biomedical Engineering
Mini Med School Medical Director: Nathan A. Berger, MD, Director, Center for Science, Health and Society
Join us Wednesday evenings at the Wolstein Please enroll me for Mini Med School, Spring 2015, CID# 1039 Building, 2103 Cornell Road beginning A p r i l 2 9 , 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Light refreshments provided. Name ______
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Art ...... 50 Literature ...... 63
Gender Studies...... 52 Music...... 66
History...... 53 Philosophy ...... 67
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ART
GALLERY LECTURE SERIES AT THE ART SINCE 1900: A METALS: WORKING WITH WIRE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY Instructor: Catherine Butler Instructors: Debbie Apple-Presser, Pat Instructor: Michael Miller Wednesdays 6:30–9:30 p.m. ART Ashton, Joellen DeOreo, Kate Hoffmeyer, Tuesdays 5–6:30 p.m. April 1–May 6 Eliza Saada and Christina Larson March 17–May 5 Location: Laurel School-Lyman Campus Tuesdays 1–2 p.m. Location: The Tinkham Veale University Cost: $170 (includes supplies) February 3–March 10 Center Students explore working both two and OR Cost: $90 three dimensionally with steel, brass, Thursdays 1–2 p.m. Many people find modernist and and copper wire. Techniques will include February 5–March 12 contemporary art difficult to understand, forming, happening and riveting. Students Location: Cleveland Museum of Art let alone appreciate. In this course, may choose to make either jewelry or (Tours meet in the Atrium North Court Lobby) students will investigate the source of this objects, starting with specific given projects, Cost: $70 difficulty by examining the historical and then moving on in individual directions. No theoretical complexities that underlie it. previous experience is needed. Parking is Participants explore the museum’s Since around 1900, art has become more provided on the Laurel Campus. permanent collection and special and more philosophical; it has become exhibitions with instructors from about ideas. With this in mind, participants the Department of Education and will explore the rise of abstraction, the Interpretation during this engaging gallery “flight from aesthetics” in the avant- lecture series. Students will examine the garde, the relevance of artifactuality/ diverse works at the Cleveland Museum of objecthood, the effects of mass culture and Art, one of the world’s most distinguished commodification on the artworld, and more. comprehensive art museums and one of northeastern Ohio’s principal civic and cultural institutions. Enrollment is limited to 28 per session.
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LOTS MORE MOSAIC AND TILE CENTURY MODERN RENOVATION FIBERS AT THE FARM: BATIK Instructor: George Woideck Facilitators: Nina Gibans and Jim Gibans ON SILK AND SILK PAINTING Instructor: Peggy Wertheim Thursdays 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Thursday 2–4 p.m. ART April 9–May 14 April 16 Tuesdays 1–4 p.m. Location: Laurel School-Butler Campus, Location: Renovated modern house, May 5–26 Reid Lodge 7300 Old Mill Rd., Gates Mills, Ohio Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Cost: $260 (includes supplies) Cost: $20 Ridge Farms, Honey House Cost: $75 Explore the museum’s permanent The Gibans book Cleveland Goes Modern: collection and special exhibitions with Design for the Home, 1930-1970 (Kent Discover, create and explore the exciting instructors from the Department of State University Press 2014) is based on techniques of batik and silk painting Education and Interpretation during this the exhibition by that name sponsored by inspired by the natural beauty of Squire engaging gallery lecture series presenting ARTneo: the museum of northeast Ohio Valleevue Farm. Students will learn diverse works at the Cleveland Museum art and architecture in 2007. This was the resist application, waxing, color blending, of Art. Presentations include art of first exhibit of area architecture since 1968, dye theory, paint and salt techniques. the 1920s and 1930s, Romanticism, and took three years to gather materials Participants will create several pieces of Chinese Imperial Porcelains, Hinduism, and document the development of modern silk wall art to frame and/or silk scarves. A and various temporary exhibitions. housing in the Cleveland area. The book wealth of design ideas, reference books and focuses on the story of the American handouts will be provided. No experience is International Style, starting with Clevelander necessary. Enrollment is limited. DOING IT RIGHT: A STORY OF Philip Johnson who grew up in a home A materials fee of $35 is payable to the MID-GODS AND HEROES designed by J. Milton Dyer on Overlook Road instructor on the first day of class. Instructor: Dale Hilton in Cleveland Heights where the carriage Wednesdays 7–8:15 p.m. house still exists on Herrick Mews. This April 15–22 afternoon session will be held in one of PAINTING IN THE OUTDOORS Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood modern visionary Robert Little’s houses Instructor: Patricia Sigmier commissioned by Frank Griesinger in 1962 Cost: $20 Thursdays 10 a.m.–2 p.m. and renovated under Little’s supervision in June 4–25 This course will focus on the myths of 1985 by their son. There will be a discussion several cultures—Greek, Roman and of modern in Cleveland, highlights from the Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Maya—as well as character traits of their book and the story of this renovation. Ridge Farms heroes and connections to the natural Cost: $125 world. In the first class, using Greek and Student artists will explore painting in Roman bronze sculptures, coins, ceramic THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN STAGE, SCREEN, AND SONG the outdoors using watercolor or another vessels and a carved marble sarcophagus IN THE EARLY 1900s medium. Subjects will be found in the from the collection of the Cleveland Instructor: Daniel Goldmark beautiful environs of Squire Valleevue and Museum of Art, students will investigate Valley Ridge Farms. Students of all skill levels, Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. the exploits of Herakles, Athena, Perseus, including beginners, are welcome. Each Orestes and others who vividly populated April 20–May 18 (no class May 4) participant will be instructed individually and the imagination of the classical Western Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood will work at his or her own pace. Students world. In the second class, students Cost: $54 should bring a bag lunch. Beverages will be will explore Maya culture by examining provided. Enrollment is limited. artifacts from the Cleveland Museum At the turn of the 20th century, Americans of Art. Topics of discussion will include were confronted with a new and powerful the Maya Popol Vuh (the creation story force for change in the country; the of the Maya), Maya hieroglyphs, notions burgeoning entertainment industry. of royalty, the sacred ball game and the Popular songs were not only heard on natural resources of Mesoamerica. the theater stage and in the movies, but also on the relatively new invention, the phonograph. Jews were the creators and consumers of much of this music. The state of Jewish life in modern America was often the subject of these stories as well. This course explores popular music by and about Jews in theater, film and other popular forms in the early 20th century.
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THE HISTORY OF JEWISH MUSIC, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY HISTORY SHTETLS FROM MIDDLE- VALUE JUDGMENTS HIGHLIGHTS AT THE AGES UNTIL WORLD WAR II HISTORY CENTER IN Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre UNIVERSITY CIRCLE Instructor: Leatrice Rabinsky Thursdays 1:30–3:30 p.m. Instructors: Museum Staff Tuesdays 1–3 p.m. March 12–April 30 January 27–March 3 Location: Don Umerley Civic Center, Fridays 10–11 a.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Rocky River March 20–May 1 Location: Western Reserve Historical Cost: $85 Cost: $85 Society (Groups will meet in the Hassler Shtetls were homes to thriving Jewish The music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart Conference Room) communities throughout areas of Europe has made these composers household Cost: $85 for several centuries. Students learn about names, but why? What was it about their the geographic locations chosen by Jews music that contributed to their longevity? This six-week course on the Community to perpetuate their religious lifestyle. They More importantly, who decided that their History collections of the Western Reserve study places where many governments music was good in the first place? This Historical Society features WRHS curators forced Jews to separate from the local music appreciation course explores not and topical experts, who will speak on population. Participants note the glorious only the sonic and aesthetic components the communities that legacy of Jewish tradition, education, music of these (and other) composers’ works, but have shaped Northeast and business, which inspired generations the impact of tastemakers on their still- Ohio. The course of people. lived fame. Students will gain insight into begins with a survey the classical music canon, the political and of several community history collections. FAMILY SECRETS: STORIES cultural circumstances that shaped it and Each proceeding week will feature a OF CRYPTO-JEWS AND their own musical preferences. different community—African-American, THEIR DESCENDANTS Irish-American, Italian-American, Jewish, and LGBT—that will be investigated more Instructor: Cheryl Gordon MUSIC, POLITICS, AND deeply. Groups will meet in the Hassler Thursdays 1–3 p.m. VALUE JUDGMENTS Conference Room, adjacent to the WRHS March 12–April 2 Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre Research Library and Archives. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Thursdays 5–6:30 p.m. Cost: $54 March 12–April 30 LINCOLN IN 1862 Location: The Tinkham Veale University Contemporary secret Jews are a legacy Leader-Teacher: Tim Beatty of the Spanish expulsion and inquisition. Center Mondays 10–11:30 a.m. Their compelling stories, and those of Cost: $90 their descendants, are playing out today March 23–May 11 The music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart in many areas of the world, including the Location: Church of the Redeemer, 2420 has made these composers household Southwestern United States. Unlocking S. Taylor Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio names, but why? What was it about their long-held family secrets has caused many Cost: $75 music that contributed to their longevity? to investigate their roots and return to the More importantly, who decided that their It’s well known that Lincoln was a lifelong religion of their ancestors. In this class, music was good in the first place? This fan of Shakespeare. He attended the theater, students will learn about the fascinating music appreciation course explores not committed long passages to memory and personal journeys of today’s bnei anusim only the sonic and aesthetic components would share his favorite lines as quickly (descendants of forced converts) and of these (and other) composers’ works, but as he would his trademark homespun examine their history, rich customs the impact of tastemakers on their still- humor. David Von Drehle has given his new and culture, as well as learn about the lived fame. Students will gain insight into biography Shakespearean appeal. It runs sometimes troubling challenges these the classical music canon, the political and the gamut on the human condition. It’s all passionate people face today. cultural circumstances that shaped it and there: war, tragedy, love, humor, intrigue, art, their own musical preferences. philosophy and mysticism. Rise to Greatness isn’t as much learning about Lincoln as it is being immersed in Lincoln’s world. William would give it two thumbs up. Book: Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year, D. Von Drehle
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THE BULLY PULPIT: THEODORE Books: How the Irish Saved Civilization, THE SUMMER OF 1927: ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD Thomas Cahill; The Irish Americans: AMERICA BETWEEN WWI
TAFT, AND THE GOLDEN A History, Jay P. Dolan AND THE DEPRESSION HISTORY AGE OF JOURNALISM Leader-Teacher: Jim Van Horn Leader-Teacher: Whitney Lloyd DANGEROUSLY FUNNY Thursdays 10–11:30 a.m. Mondays 10:30 a.m.–noon March 26–May 14 Leader-Teacher: Bill Brauning March 23–May 11 Location: Middleburg Heights Church, Mondays 9:30–11 a.m. Location: South Franklin Circle, 16600 7165 Big Creek Parkway, Middleburg March 23-May 11 Warren Court, Chagrin Falls, Ohio Heights, Ohio Location: The Renaissance, 26376 John Cost: $75 Cost: $75 Road, Olmsted Township, Ohio The Bully Pulpit analyzes the background, Cost: $75 The Great Mississippi Flood; Cal Coolidge friendship and subsequent bitter rivalry and Herbert Hoover; Al Capone, Texas This is a behind the scenes look at the between Theodore Roosevelt and William Guinian and Prohibition; Lindbergh’s solo rise and fall of the Smothers Brothers Howard Taft. Michiko Kakutani remarks that flight to Paris; Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Comedy Hour, the provocative politically- Goodwin “uses her impressive narrative Baseball’s White Sox scandal; Sacco and charged program that shocked the censors skills to give us a visceral sense of the Vanzetti and “The Red Scare;” the rise of and outraged the White House, forever world in which” these significant political the Ku Klux Klan nationwide; the coming changing the face of television. Excerpts figures came of age. While having widely depression; Jack Dempsey, Dempsey’s fights from the show will be used to emphasize different temperaments, Goodwin says with Jack Sharkey and Gene Tunney; Henry and highlight undercurrent themes. General that together they would “fundamentally Ford, the Model T and the Model A; Jolson in themes presented will be censorship, social/ enlarge the bounds of economic opportunity “The Jazz Singer,” Clara Bow and the movies; political climate of the 60’s, the media, and social justice.” Goodwin also explores and the musical, Showboat would change groundbreaking events in entertainment, Roosevelt’s complex and “sometimes Broadway forever. Add the occasional, just political overtones of the show and the contentious partnerships” with investigative plain nuttiness of those three months, progression of show format from inception journalists, such as Jacob Riis and Upton as told by Bryson with an eye for detail, to ultimate cancellation of the program. Sinclair. Her account of Roosevelt and Taft’s vividness and his delicious humor, and one achievements in rousing congress to pass Book: Dangerously Funny, David Bianculli has entertaining reading for sure! significant reform legislation is illuminating in light of the contemporary gridlock and Book: One Summer – America, 1927, dysfunction in Washington. UNDERSTANDING U.S.- Bill Bryson IRAN RELATIONS Book: The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin Leader-Teacher: Norman Robbins NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA OF Tuesdays 10–11:30 a.m. RUSSIA: WHAT’S THE REAL STORY? March 24–May 12 Leader-Teacher: Betty Zak IRISH INFLUENCES ON Location: Brecksville United Church of AMERICAN CULTURE Thursdays 1:30–3 p.m. Christ, 23 Public Square, Brecksville, Ohio March 26–May 14 Leader-Teacher: Ted Smith Cost: $75 Location: Laurel Lake Community Room, Mondays 1–2:30 p.m. 200 Laurel Lake Drive, Hudson, Ohio March 23–May 11 This course will begin with an introduction on geography, early history and a preview Cost: $75 Location: Rocky River Library, 1600 of the key events of pride and humiliation in Nicholas and Alexandra have been called Hampton Road, Rocky River, Ohio modern history, which affect Iranian thinking saints, innocent victims and harbingers of Cost: $75 to this day. Then, a series of sessions will revolution among many other names. What cover modern Iranian history, (beginning Every March, people of all backgrounds really happened? Was it a love that extended around 1900) in parallel with reading about celebrate the son of a Roman governor beyond each other? Was it a love that ended the life of Muhammed Mossedegh, a who was kidnapped, sold into slavery an empire? Discover their passion, their remarkable and seminal figure who lived and in time, single-handedly turned his strengths and their weaknesses in a new through much of this period. Finally, the last captors and their nation to monotheism. light. Participants begin with the traditional two sessions apply this background to the Eventually their descendants would reading of Massie’s, Nicholas and Alexandra, pros and cons of current U.S. policy options leave their island home under oppressive followed by summaries of newly Russian with respect to Iran, namely sanctions, foreign rule and famine to arrive in North released documents, involving Rasputin, Alix military action or diplomacy. America; a shattered culture. The Irish in and Nicky and Alexandra’s lady-in-waiting. North America have overcome prejudice Books: Patriot of Persia, Christopher de Possibilities will then be extrapolated and addiction to make an indelible mark Bellaigue; selections from: Empire of the through the second book. on American culture in everything from Mind: A History of Iran, Michael Axworthy politics to popular culture. Books: Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert Massie; The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 53 COURSES BY SUBJECT HISTORY MY PROMISED LAND: THE ISRAEL IN THE 1960s: THE STORY OF JEWISH TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ISRAEL BOOKEND EVENTS LIFE IN SMALL TOWNS IN Leader-Teacher: Joe Konen Instructor: Brian Amkraut THE UNITED STATES Fridays 10–11:30 a.m. Tuesdays 7–9 p.m. Instructor: Leatrice Rabinsky March 27–May 15 April 14–May 5 Tuesdays 1–3 p.m. Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood April 28–June 2 2747 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Cost: $54 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Heights, Ohio Cost: $85 This course examines two significant Cost: $75 episodes from modern Israeli history to Students learn of Jewish peddlers’ Ari Shavit, a columnist for the Israeli provide insight into Israeli society during early migration to Southern U.S. cities daily Haaretz, weaves narratives about the country’s second decade. In 1961, and villages in the 18th and early individual (Jewish and Palestinian) Adolph Eichmann was apprehended 19thcenturies. This course examines the founders, fighters and entrepreneurs of and put on trial. The decade drew establishment of Jewish-owned stores Israel, as well as stories about individual to a close with the realization of the and businesses, noting how Jews created communities (kibbutz, village, city, camp) population’s fears and subsequent vibrant commercial ventures and houses into a narrative history of Israel over jubilation surrounding the Six-Day War in of worship. By the early 20th century, the last century and a quarter. Thomas 1967. This short course explores how these descendants of these early peddlers left Friedman says, “The uniqueness of Shavit’s events unfolded, and how they continue to their hometowns to study in colleges and book is that when you’re done with it you shape Israeli society in the 21st century. universities and became professionals can understand, respect or love Israel—but and business people elsewhere. This not in a dogmatic or unthinking way, and course follows the stories of how many not a fake or contrived Israel.” synagogues are now museums, giving testimony of the Jewish contributions to Book: My Promised Land: The Triumph and the vitality of life in the South. Tragedy of Israel, Ari Shavit HOLOCAUST STUDIES HOLOCAUST STUDIES
DEFYING NAZI IDEOLOGY: HOLOCAUST MEMORY AND JEWS, GERMANS, AND ALLIES: RESISTANCE BY WOMEN MEMORIALIZATION IN POST- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS IN COMMUNIST EUROPE OCCUPIED GERMANY Instructor: Donna Rumenik Thursdays 10 a.m.–noon Instructor: Donna Rumenik Lecturer: Atina Grossman January 29–March 5 Thursdays 10 a.m.–noon Thursday noon–2 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood March 12–April 23 (no class April 9) May 14 Cost: $85 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $85 Cost: $25 (includes lunch) This course examines some of the neglected stories of women who defied The collapse of communism led to Once the World War II ended, what was Nazi ideology. Specific attention will be archival sources becoming available along the nature of the experiences of she’rith given to women who were partisans and with projects focusing on eyewitness hapleta—the saved remnant of Europe’s women who used their traditional gender testimonies of those who witnessed and decimated Jewish communities? This role expectations to disguise their actions experienced the Holocaust as children and lecture will address the small group of against the Nazis. Acts of resistance in young adults. How are truths constructed remaining German Jews and 250,000 East forced labor and concentration camps will about the past? How are the devastating European Jews who were gathered— also be examined. How did the experiences events of the Holocaust remembered Displaced Persons in Germany with the of these resisters differ from those of on individual and collective levels? blood stained land of the perpetrators— men in terms of enthusiasm, doubt, fear What are the problems and practices of and now occupied and defeated. With and behavior? This course will explore the remembrance and commemoration? This careful attention to the details of answer to that very question. Sources to course will focus on how the Holocaust is everyday encounters, their complex and be used include: interviews, diaries, court remembered or forgotten. Students will fraught relationships—both hostile and transcripts, photos and films. examine memory sites through diaries harmonious, distant and sometimes and memoirs, monuments, museums and intimate—with defeated Germans and days of remembrance. The focus will be victorious Allies will be examined. on Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Ukraine. Sources to be used include: memoir and diary excerpts, documents, photos and films.
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HORTICULTURE & NATURE
STARTING FROM SEED BIRDS AND BREAKFAST WALKING THROUGH NATURE Instructor: Christopher Bond Instructor: Tim Matson Instructor: Jay Abercrombie Saturday 1–4 p.m. Fridays 6:30–8:30 a.m. Wednesdays 10 a.m.–noon April 4 (breakfast 8:30–9 a.m.) June 3–17 Location: Valleevue and Valley Ridge May 8–June 12 Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Farms, Kutina Classroom Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms (Meet in Greenhouse Cost: $35 Ridge Farms (Meet in Greenhouse Parking Lot) Parking Lot) Cost: $45 This class will be an overview of starting crops from seed, including cold weather Cost: $85 This field seminar provides a close look at crops, warm weather crops and herbs. May and June are busy months for birds. the plants, wildlife and geology of Squire The class will be a combination of Migrants arrive and some continue their Valleevue Farm. Discover the natural riches presentations, a tour and hands-on journeys northward. Others, along with of this area by foot travel. On field trips activities and demonstrations. permanent residents, establish and into the forest and meadows, participants
actively defend their territories and carry will observe and discuss habitats and NATURE & HORTICULTURE their inhabitants: mammals, birds, reptiles, BASICS OF VEGETABLE out reproductive activities. Come and PRODUCTION learn to recognize the many species of amphibians, insects, trees, shrubs, flowers, birds on the basis of appearance, song, ferns and fungi. No strenuous hiking will Instructor: Christopher Bond and behavior in the meadows, woodlands, be involved, but participants should be able Saturday 1–4 p.m. ravines and ponds of Squire Valleevue to maintain an active pace over generally May 2 Farm. Participants will explore the moderate, but occasionally, hilly or wet Location: Valleevue and Valley Ridge bluebird trail, watch busy bobolinks or be terrain. Farms, Kutina Classroom rewarded with a rare sighting of Henslow’s Cost: $35 Sparrow. No prior birding experience is ALL ABOUT ROSES necessary. Binoculars and field guides are This class will take a look at the basics recommended. A continental breakfast will Instructor: Christopher Bond of starting, maintaining and harvesting be available at the Pink Pig following each Saturday 1–4 p.m. annual and perennial vegetables. The class morning’s activities. June 6 will be a combination of presentations, Location: Valleevue and Valley Ridge a tour and hands-on activities and Farms, Kutina Classroom demonstrations. Cost: $35 This class will examine the various types of roses, their history, uses and their culture. The class will be a combination of presentations, a tour and hands-on activities and demonstrations.
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RASHI: THE MAN, HIS THE HISTORY OF JEWISH SERVICE OF THE HEART: THE LIFE, AND HIS WORK SHTETLS FROM MIDDLE- STRUCTURE AND MEANING AGES UNTIL WORLD WAR II OF JEWISH PRAYER Instructor: Moshe Berger Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Instructor: Leatrice Rabinsky Instructor: Moshe Berger Session I: January 26–March 2 Tuesdays 1–3 p.m. Thursdays 1–3 p.m. Session II: March 9–April 20 January 27–March 3 Session I: January 29–March 12 (no class (no class April 6) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood March 5) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $85 Session II: March 19–May 7 (no class Cost: $85 per session (register for one or Shtetls were homes to thriving Jewish April 2 & April 9) both sessions) communities throughout areas of Europe Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood for several centuries. Students learn about Cost: $85 per session (register for one or Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki—better known the geographic locations chosen by Jews both sessions) as Rashi—was born in Medieval Franco- to perpetuate their religious lifestyle. They Germany and grew up to become the This course draws on Jewish perspectives study places where many governments most influential scholar and commentator to examine the nature of prayer. Students forced Jews to separate from the local of the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. Across begin with an overview of the structure population. Participants note the glorious the Jewish world, his writings continue to of the siddur (prayer–book); an analysis legacy of Jewish tradition, education, music impact the way these texts are understood of the basic concepts that underlie the and business, which inspired generations today. In this course, students explore liturgy; and an exploration of Rabbi Joseph of people. Rashi’s work and the historical context Soloveitchik’s classic work, Service of the in which he wrote. Learners will read Heart. Drawing on a broad humanist selections from his commentaries on some ENGAGE THE TALMUD: BEGIN perspective, this course examines the of the best–known Biblical narratives, OR CONTINUE YOUR STUDIES ways in which prayer provides a vehicle examining them for content and method, to connect with the Divine. All students in an attempt to appreciate his amazing Instructor: Moshe Berger are welcome regardless of background, impact. No knowledge of Hebrew is Thursdays 10 a.m.–noon religious affiliation, or prior knowledge. necessary. Bring only your curiosity! January 29–May 7 (no class March 5, April 2, April 9) SIBLING RIVALRY: JACOB AND JEWISH MYSTICISM: THE BASICS Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood ESAU IN RABBINIC LORE Cost: $170 Instructor: Moshe Berger Instructor: Zion Yakar The Talmud is a composite of Jewish law Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. and lore written over the course of almost Thursdays 8:30–9:30 a.m. January 26–March 2 700 years. Since its codification, around January 29–May 14 (no class April 2, April Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood the year 500, it has shaped Judaism as it is 9 & April 23) Cost: $85 known today. This course introduces the Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood uninitiated into the Talmud’s rich world. Cost: $85 This course provides an overview of For those with some familiarity, the course Jewish mystical literature, including an Favoritism, manipulation and jealousy will increase students’ understanding and introduction to the Zohar, one of Judaism’s create rifts between parents and siblings. comfort with the text. Participants will central mystical texts. Students will read The Biblical story of Jacob and Esau is study selections from Tractate Berachot, key sections of the text in translation and filled with strife and narratives of these which addresses the challenge of achieving gain access to its meaning and continued dynamics and offers much material inner focus in prayer. English versions will relevance. for reflecting on the nature of family be available. relationships. Participants will read this section of the Bible, with an eye toward exploring issues related to sibling rivalry. This course will also cover classical Rabbinic commentary (Midrash) on these chapters in the Torah, and consider how the Midrash can transform understandings of those narratives.
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JEWISH BOOT CAMP— JEWISH MYSTICISM: ILLUMINATING ISRAEL IN THE 1960S: JEWISH HISTORY KABBALAH AND THE ZOHAR BOOKEND EVENTS
Instructor: Brian Amkraut Instructor: Zion Yakar Instructor: Brian Amkraut Thursdays 6:30–8 p.m. Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Tuesdays 7–9 p.m. February 26–March 26 (no class on Session I: March 9–April 20 April 14–May 5 March 19) (no class April 6) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Session II: April 27–June 8 Cost: $54 JEWISH STUDIES JEWISH Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $54 This course examines two significant This course surveys the broad sweep of Cost: $85 per session episodes from modern Israeli history to Jewish history. It begins with a look at (register for one or both sessions) provide insight into Israeli society during the Biblical period and the emergence of This course provides for continuing the country’s second decade. In 1961, Israelite life and culture in its ancient near study of the Zohar, one of Judaism’s Adolph Eichmann was apprehended eastern context, and takes students on a central mystical texts. Students will read and put on trial. The decade drew journey through history all the way to the selections in translation, delve into their to a close with the realization of the modern era. Students address the critical meaning and explore their continued population’s fears and subsequent questions: How and why did Judaism relevance. Some prior study of the Zohar is jubilation surrounding the Six-Day war in manage to survive through so many recommended. 1967. This short course explores how these challenges? What sorts of encounters events unfolded, and how they continue to helped to shape the long and varied story shape Israeli society in the 21st century. of Judaism and the Jewish people? FAMILY SECRETS: STORIES OF CRYPTO-JEWS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS JEWISH COMMENTARY ON CHRISTIANS AND ANTI-JUDAISM THE NEW TESTAMENT Instructor: Cheryl Gordon Instructor: Todd Rosenberg Thursdays 1–3 p.m. Instructor: Todd Rosenberg Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. March 12–April 2 Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. March 9–April 20 (no class April 6) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood April 27–June 8 (no class May 25) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $54 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $85 Cost: $85 Contemporary secret Jews are a legacy This class will explore Christian concepts of the Spanish expulsion and inquisition. This class will utilize The Jewish Annotated that historically have been viewed as Their compelling stories, and those of New Testament by Jewish professors, challenges to Judaism. Topics will include: their descendants, are playing out today Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler, to whether the Jews are responsible for the in many areas of the world, including the explore the Jewish backgrounds of various death of Jesus, Replacement Theology, Southwestern United States. Unlocking passages in the New Testament. Topics anti-Semitism and the church, whether long-held family secrets has caused many will include Romans 9:11, The Sermon on Jews are destined for hell, and Christian to investigate their roots and return to the the Mount, The Lord’s Prayer, Parable of versus Jewish ethics. The course is religion of their ancestors. In this class, the Good Samaritan—and other parables, designed for adult learners at all levels, and students will learn about the fascinating the Gospel of Mark, and the Book of Acts. participants of all religious backgrounds are personal journeys of today’s bnei anusim No specific knowledge of Christianity is encouraged to attend. Materials are drawn (descendants of forced converts) and required, and no prior class is required. All from The Jewish-Christian Debate by Todd examine their history, rich customs faiths are encouraged to attend. Rosenberg. and culture, as well as learn about the sometimes troubling challenges these passionate people face today.
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THE STORY OF JEWISH LIFE JEWISH BOOT CAMP— IN CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH TRADITIONS UNITED STATES Instructor: Alanna Cooper Instructor: Leatrice Rabinsky Thursdays 6:30–8 p.m. Tuesdays 1–3 p.m. April 30–May 21 April 28–June 2 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $54 Cost: $85 This course provides a concise, but Students learn of Jewish peddlers’ comprehensive look at the traditions early migration to Southern U.S. cities that mark the Jewish calendar and the and villages in the 18th and early cycle of life. This course begins with an 19thcenturies. This course examines the overview of the all major Jewish holidays, establishment of Jewish-owned stores their meanings, how they developed, and and businesses, noting how Jews created how they are observed today. The class vibrant commercial ventures and houses will then move to a discussion of major of worship. By the early 20th century, life cycle rituals: What did Bar and Bat descendants of these early peddlers left Mitzvahs look like before they became their hometowns to study in colleges and large (often garish) affairs? How is a Jewish universities and became professionals wedding conducted and why? How are and business people elsewhere. This Jews buried and mourned? course follows the stories of how many synagogues are now museums, giving testimony of the Jewish contributions to JEWISH BOOT CAMP— the vitality of life in the South. JEWISH VALUES Instructor: Elise Braverman-Plotkin CURRENT PRESSING ISSUES: Thursdays 6:30–8 p.m. ON GENDER AND JUDAISM May 28–June 18 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Instructor: Alanna Cooper Cost: $54 Wednesday 10 a.m.-noon April 29-May 20 This course examines Judaism’s core Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood values and beliefs set forth in the Hebrew Cost: $54 Bible and by the ancient rabbis. The class will explore how those ideas developed As civil marriage laws change, and as and continue to have relevance today. women gain more equality in society at Topics include: creation in the image of large, how are reverberations felt in the God, respect and kindness in a community, ways Judaism is practiced and understood? repairing the world, and the unity of the This course examines current issues facing Jewish people. Join in discussions of how American and Israeli Jews surrounding these values offer multiple approaches for questions of gender and sexuality. Issues living a modern, ethical life. to be explored include: Women of the Wall, reverberations of the Washington, D.C. Mikvah scandal, same sex Jewish marriage, Hareidi women running for office in Israel and the feminization of American Judaism.
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LANGUAGE
CONVERSATIONAL HEBREW Intermediate CLASSICAL HEBREW Instructor: Judith Shamir Conversational Hebrew allows students Allows learners of all levels to read the to reach their goal of communicating in Thursdays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Bible in its original language. Students Israel’s native language as well as enjoy Session I: March 12–April 23 acquire basic knowledge of Hebrew, LANGUAGE Hebrew literature, songs, drama, and film, (no class April 9) learn decoding, vocabulary and grammar LITERATURE read Israeli newspapers and view Israeli Session II: April 30–June 4 necessary for understanding biblical television. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood narrative and Bible-based liturgy. Cost: $85 per session Advanced Beginner Advanced Instructor: Rachel Lawton Advanced Instructor: Moshe Adler Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Instructor: Rivka Taub Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. January 26–April 20 (no class April 6) Tuesdays 10 a.m.–noon January 26 - April 20 (no class April 6) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood January 27–April 21 (no class April 7) Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $184 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $184 Cost: $184 Intermediate HEBREW LITERATURE Instructor: Leah Cooper Advanced Hebrew literature engages advanced Tuesdays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Instructor: Rivka Taub students in fictional novels and plays by January 27–April 21 (no class April 7) Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. leading Israeli authors and playwrights. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood January 26–April 20 (no class April 6) Cost: $184 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Advanced Conversational Hebrew Cost: $184 Instructor: Yehudit Sharaby Intermediate Sundays 10 a.m.–noon Instructor: Sonia Yungster Advanced January 25- April 19 (no class April 5) Wednesdays 1–3 p.m. Instructor: David Salczer Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood January 28–April 22 (no class April 8) Thursdays 10 a.m.–noon Cost: $184 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood January 29 - April 23 (no class April 9) Cost: $184 This conversational advanced Hebrew Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood class is for students who wish to further Cost: $184 develop their linguistic skills. Strengthening Intermediate reading comprehension and developing Instructor: Leah Cooper written expression are only a few modes Wednesdays 6:30–8:30 p.m. of learning in this course. This course will allow you to explore more challenging January 28–April 22 (no class April 8) verb conjugations in various tenses, and Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood construct complex grammatical sentences. Cost: $184 We will conduct a Hebrew book-discussion using Letters to Talia, which analyzes the cultural differences between secular and religious Jews living in Israel. Other topics will also be examined relating to philosophy, Zionism, and Judaism. Join this dynamic learning environment to further understand the Hebrew language, Israeli culture and current events.
www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 59 COURSES BY SUBJECT MUSIC LANGUAGE Expressions in Literature, Music Contemporary Israeli Fiction and Art (advanced Hebrew) (advanced Hebrew) Instructor: Judith Shamir Instructor: Sonia Yungster Tuesdays 10 a.m.–noon Wednesdays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Session I: March 10–April 21 Session I: March 11–April 22 (no class April 7) (no class April 8) Session II: April 28–June 2 Session II: April 29–June 3 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Cost: $85 per session Cost: $85 per session (register for one or both sessions) (register for one or both sessions) In this course, students will meet Israeli Keep up with the current Israeli literary authors, artists and performers. Close scene. In this course, students will read readings of their work and examination works of contemporary authors, engage in of their art will allow for a multifaceted discussion and gain a better understanding understanding of Israel’s culture. of Israeli culture today. (Advanced Hebrew (Advanced Hebrew required) required) LAW ÐICS LAW & ETHICS
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY: IS THE ROBERTS COURT THIS AN OXYMORON? Instructors: Jonathan Adler, Jonathan Instructor: Barbara Greenberg Entin, Jessie Hill, Ray Ku, and Andrew Tuesdays 10 a.m.–noon Pollis January 27–March 3 Tuesdays 1:30–3:30 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood February 3–March 3 Cost: $85 Location: The College Club of Cleveland Our Right to Privacy is changing daily. (free parking available) There is a continuing conflict between the Cost: $105 rights of the individual and the need for Law School faculty will present lectures safety and security. This class will focus on cases recently before the U.S. Supreme on the areas of most recent concern: public Court: The Affordable Care Act; voting rights health, technology, personal and family (Shelby County, etc.); reproductive rights issues. Participants will discuss the most (Hobby Lobby); cell phone searches, privacy recent U.S. Supreme Court cases involving (Riley); and same sex marriage (Windsor/ these areas and the Bill of Rights, which Hollingsworth). gives us the basis of our right to privacy.
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LITERATURE
VANITY FAIR GRAHAM GREENE, FROM O CANADA—GLORIOUS AND FREE! PAGE TO SCREEN Leader-Teacher: David Ackerman Leader-Teacher: Joseph Jacoby Sundays 5–6:30 p.m. Leader-Teacher: Terry Meehan Thursdays 10–11:30 a.m. March 22–May 10 Tuesdays 10–11:30 a.m. March 26–May 14 Location: Private residence, 13803 March 24–May 12 Location: Westlake United Methodist LITERATURE Cormere Ave., Cleveland, Ohio Location: Lakewood United Methodist Church, 27650 Center Ridge Road, Cost: $75 Church, 15700 Detroit Ave., Lakewood Westlake, Ohio Cost: $75 Thackeray’s greatest novel is a moral Cost: $75 tapestry of early nineteenth-century Graham Greene was a Roman Catholic Less than 30 miles from the American- English manners. who wrote novels with complex religious Canadian border, but most people know themes. He was also a spy who wrote virtually nothing about Canada. The award Books: Vanity Fair, William Makepeace novels about international espionage and of the Nobel Prize this past September Thackeray intrigue. But above all, he was one of the to Alice Munro, has renewed interest in 20th century’s most cinematic writers the richness of Canadian literature. This F. SCOTT FITZGERALD with over 60 films based on his works. He discussion will examine Alistair MacLeod’s even wrote screenplays and has an Oscar elegiac, poetic account of life on Cape Leader-Teacher: Barbara Parr nomination to his credit. This course will Mondays 10:30 a.m.–noon Breton Island in the last century, exploring begin with a lively discussion of the novel the magical Michael Ondaatje’s most March 23–May 11 itself, a screening of its adaptation to recent novel, and reveling in the newest Location: Bay United Methodist Church, film, and then lastly, it will examine how collection of stories by the inimitable Alice 29931 Lake Road, Bay Village, Ohio successfully the filmmaker transformed the Munro, still at the peak of her powers. Cost: $75 book’s ideas and characters into cinema. Books: No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod; Fitzgerald satirizes a glamorous and Books and Movies: The Third Man by The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje doomed marriage in the decadent high Graham Greene, Film directed by Carol society of New York City in the 1920s— Reed (1949); Our Man in Havana by Graham inspired, of course, by his own marriage. Greene, Film directed by Carol Reed (1959); GREEK TRAGEDIES His masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, Instructor: Janice Vitullo focuses on decadence, idealism, resistance Film directed by Neil Jordan (1999) Saturdays 10:30 a.m.–noon to change, social upheaval and excess. April 11–May 23 Fowler’s book depicts the Fitzgerald’s STEINBECK’S AMERICA Location: Laurel School-Lyman Campus tumultuous relationship. Leader-Teacher: Barbara Parr Cost: $95 Books: The Beautiful and the Damned, The Thursdays 10 a.m. This course comprises a close reading Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Z: A Novel March 26–May 14 and discussion of several Greek plays of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler Location: Beachwood Library, 25501 written about the aftermath of the Shaker Blvd., Beachwood, OH fall of Troy, including Aeschylus’ trilogy Cost: $75 the Oresteia; Electra and Ajax by Sophocles; and Electra, Hecuba, Andromache, and John Steinbeck is a familiar name to all Trojan Women by Euripides. LITERATURE of us. His voice is that of the ordinary working class person facing both internal Texts required for the course are as and external challenges in life. He takes follows: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; on the human struggle in a timeless and The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, universal language. His characters are richly Aeschylus, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978- developed and reach into our very souls. In 0140443332; Electra and Other Plays, The Grapes of Wrath and In Dubious Battle, Sophocles, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978- Steinbeck addresses social and political 0140449785; and Electra and Other issues of the Depression era. During this Plays, Euripides, Penguin Classics, ISBN course, we will discuss the human, social 978-0140446685. and literary aspects of these works. His novels inspire and enrich readers of all generations. Books: In Dubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath, J. Steinbeck www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 61 COURSES BY SUBJECT LITERATURE
MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY ALICE MUNRO – MASTER GREAT AMERICAN FICTION BY THINGS: A TALE OF WONDERS OF THE SHORT STORY JEWISH AUTHORS Instructor: Sylvia F. Abrams Instructor: Sylvia F. Abrams Instructor: Reva Leizman Wednesdays 10–11:30 a.m. Mondays 1–2:30 p.m. Thursdays 1–3 p.m. April 15–May 6 April 20–May 11 April 30–June 4 Location: Cuyahoga County Public Location: Cuyahoga County Public Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Library, Mayfield Branch Library, Orange Branch Cost: $85 Cost: Free and open to the public Cost: Free and open to the public Jewish American writers are significantly Alice Hoffman’s, The Museum of Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel represented in the 20th and 21st century Extraordinary Things, is a novel of early Prize for Literature, has been called literary scenes. In this six-week course, 20th century New York that intertwines the “Chekov” of our time. In this course, students will read some of the greats by two unlikely love starved protagonists: students will read, Dear Life, published authors—Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Coralie and Eddie. Each inhabits a different in 2012. This anthology includes several Ozick and Nora Ephron. These authors, section of gritty New York: Coralie— narratives in which women, in some way, some practicing Jews and some not, all Coney Island and Eddie—the Lower shake off the weight of their upbringing manifest many of the basic Jewish values East Side. Hoffman’s readers encounter and do something unconventional. and teachings in their writing. Anyone who melodramatic stories imbued with the Discussions will examine how Munro has has never read these authors or wishes to atmosphere of folk tales. She skillfully revolutionized the architecture of short read them again, join this course to savor weaves into this mesmerizing plot strange, stories and probe what her spare fiction their genius. yet sympathetic people living in bizarre reveals about human nature. circumstances. STEINBECK’S GRAPES OF STEINBECK’S GRAPES OF WRATH—TAKE ANOTHER LOOK GODS AND HEROES WRATH—TAKE ANOTHER LOOK Instructor: Barbara Parr Instructor: Dale Hilton Instructor: Barbara Parr Thursdays 7–8:30 p.m. Wednesday 7–8:15 p.m. Tuesdays 7–8:30 p.m. May 7–28 April 15–22 April 28–May 26 (no class on May 12) Location: Cuyahoga County Public Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Lakewood Public Library, Main Library, Bay Village Branch Cost: $20 Branch Cost: Free and open to the public Cost: Free and open to the public This course will focus on the myths of This iconic American novel, celebrating several cultures—Greek, Roman and This iconic American novel, celebrating its 75th anniversary of publication, Maya—as well as character traits of their its 75th anniversary of publication, is guaranteed to generate lively heroes and connections to the natural is guaranteed to generate lively discussions. Steinbeck is as relevant now world. In the first class, using Greek and discussions. Steinbeck is as relevant now as he was in 1939. Literary and historical Roman bronze sculptures, coins, ceramic as he was in 1939. Literary and historical aspects of the novel will be the primary vessels and a carved marble sarcophagus aspects of the novel will be the primary focus. Participants will rediscover the from the collection of the Cleveland focus. Participants will rediscover the genius of Steinbeck and this superior novel. Museum of Art, students will investigate genius of Steinbeck and this superior novel. the exploits of Herakles, Athena, Perseus,
Orestes and others who vividly populated the imagination of the classical Western world. In the second class, students will explore Maya culture by examining artifacts from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Topics of discussion will include the Maya Popol Vuh (the creation story of the Maya), Maya hieroglyphs, notions of royalty, the sacred ball game and the natural resources of Mesoamerica.
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MUSIC
LISTENING IN CLEVELAND Michael Haber, cello, Cleveland Orchestra MUSIC, POLITICS, AND MUSIC VALUE JUDGMENTS Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre (retired) Mondays 7–8:30 p.m. Peter Takacs, piano, Oberlin Conservatory Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre January 26–March 23 (no class March 16) Mary Kay Robinson, flute- CWRU and Thursdays 5–6:30 p.m. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood CIM Chamber Music, Panorámicos March 12–April 30 Cost: $85 Sunday 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Location: The Tinkham Veale University March 8 Center This course takes a close look at the Location: Case Western Reserve Cost: $90 repertoire for the current concert season, University, Harkness Chapel whether offered by the Cleveland The music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart Cost: $175 (includes lunch) Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Institute has made these composers household of Music, Opera Cleveland, Nighttown This full day workshop for adults is names, but why? What was it about their or others. Adapting course content to designed for amateur musicians who music that contributed to their longevity? concert schedules, each week, the class want to refine their skills and have the More importantly, who decided that their will focus on the structures and meanings opportunity perform and work with a music was good in the first place? This of performances offered throughout star-studded faculty of chamber music music appreciation course explores not the city. Participants will develop active professionals and recording artists. only the sonic and aesthetic components listening skills and gain insight into the Individuals and pre-formed ensembles of these (and other) composers’ works, but contemporary political and aesthetic are welcome. Early registration is key the impact of tastemakers on their still- climates that shaped the music offered for ensemble formation. The schedule lived fame. Students will gain insight into within their own community. will include: rehearsals, coaching, reading the classical music canon, the political and session and final concert. Coffee and lunch cultural circumstances that shaped it and are provided. The event is sponsored by their own musical preferences. YOU TOO CAN MASTER CHAMBER MUSIC LIKE A PRO! the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program and the Department of Music at Case Faculty: THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN Western Reserve University; and ACMP, the STAGE, SCREEN AND SONG Franklin Cohen, clarinet, Principal Chamber Music Network. IN THE EARLY 1900s Cleveland Orchestra, CIM, ChamberFest Instructor: Daniel Goldmark Cleveland MUSIC, POLITICS, AND Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Peter Salaff, violin, CIM, Cleveland VALUE JUDGMENTS Quartet April 20–May 18 (no class May 4) Instructor: Kelly St. Pierre Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Annie Fullard, violin, CIM, Cavani Quartet Thursdays 1:30–3:30 p.m. Lynne Ramsey, viola, CIM, Miro Quartet, Cost: $54 March 12–April 30 Cleveland Orchestra, Panorámicos At the turn of the 20th century, Americans Location: Don Umerley Civic Center, were confronted with a new and powerful Rocky River force for change in the country; the Cost: $85 burgeoning entertainment industry. The music of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart Popular songs were not only heard on has made these composers household the theater stage and in the movies, but names, but why? What was it about their also on the relatively new invention, the music that contributed to their longevity? phonograph. Jews were the creators and More importantly, who decided that their consumers of much of this music. The music was good in the first place? This state of Jewish life in modern America was music appreciation course explores not often the subject of these stories as well. only the sonic and aesthetic components This course explores popular music by and of these (and other) composers’ works, but about Jews in theaters films, and other the impact of tastemakers on their still- popular forms in the early 20th century. lived fame. Students will gain insight into the classical music canon, the political and cultural circumstances that shaped it and their own musical preferences.
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RELIGION AND SCIENCE: SOME ART SINCE 1900: A VALUES & VISIONS: A PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS PHILOSOPHICAL SURVEY CONVERSATIONAL INTRODUCTION Instructor: Michael Miller Instructor: Michael Miller TO PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING Thursdays 7–8:30 p.m. Tuesdays 5–6:30 p.m. Instructor: David Huston February 5–26 March 17–May 5 Tuesdays 7–8:30 p.m. Location: Lakewood Public Library, Location: The Tinkham Veale University April 7–May 26 Main Branch Center Location: Laurel School-Lyman Campus Cost: Free and open to the public Cost: $90 Cost: $75 (excludes $45 fee for book paid directly to instructor at first class) Are science and religion fundamentally Many people find modernist and opposed to one another? Is there empirical contemporary art difficult to understand, Many people are intimidated by the strange evidence for or against God’s existence? Is let alone appreciate. In this course, language and obscurity of much philosophy. the theory of Intelligent Design a genuine students will investigate the source of this This course will change participant’s rival to evolutionary theory? What do difficulty by examining the historical and minds about that. Using the unique modern biology and neuroscience imply theoretical complexities that underlie it. approach of St. John’s College (The Great about the nature of the human mind, the Since around 1900, art has become more Books College), this course will emphasize soul or the prospect of life after death? In and more philosophical; it has become short readings of accessible classic texts this series, each of these questions will be about ideas. With this in mind, participants in literature and philosophy chosen to considered and the historical and political will explore the rise of abstraction, the stimulate thought and conversation context in which they have been debated “flight from aesthetics” in the avant- on topics essential to a meaningful life: will be examined. garde, the relevance of artifactuality/ friendship, leadership, community, truth, objecthood, the effects of mass culture and justice, morality and beauty. Be prepared to commodification on the artworld, and more. learn, listen and lead! Required text: Mapping the Future (Touchstone Press), $45—due at the first class. Previous attendees who purchased the text before may use their current copy; though the focus will be on different chapters.
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POLITICS & CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY: IS DANGEROUSLY FUNNY VIVA MEXICO! THIS AN OXYMORON? Leader-Teacher: Bill Brauning Leader-Teacher: Joseph Jacoby Instructor: Barbara Greenberg Mondays 9:30–11 a.m. Wednesdays 10–11:30 a.m. Tuesdays 10 a.m.–noon March 23–May 11 March 25–May 13 January 27–March 3 Location: The Renaissance, 26376 John Location: Rosemont Country Club, 3777 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Road, Olmsted Township, Ohio Rosemont Ave., Fairlawn, Ohio Cost: $85 Cost: $75 Cost: $75 Our Right to Privacy is changing daily. This is a behind the scenes look at the As Latinos impact our economy, change There is a continuing conflict between the rise and fall of the Smothers Brothers our culture and affect our political destiny, rights of the individual and the need for Comedy Hour, the provocative politically- it is time for Americans to recognize safety and security. This class will focus charged program that shocked the the importance of Mexico to the United on the areas of most recent concern: public censors and outraged the White House, States. Mexican history is among the most health, technology, personal and family forever changing the face of television. colorful and dramatic of any world nation. issues. Participants will discuss the most Excerpts from the show will be used to Participants will read a clear, concise recent U.S. Supreme Court cases involving emphasize and highlight undercurrent historical account of this fascinating these areas and the Bill of Rights, which themes. General themes presented will be country, and then examine The Old Gringo, gives us the basis of our right to privacy. censorship, social/political climate of the a subtle, moving novel of Carlos Fuentes, 60’s, the media, groundbreaking events in widely regarded as Mexico’s greatest RACIAL AND ETHNIC entertainment, political overtones of the writer. The Margaret Sayers Peden EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA show and the progression of show format translation is a requirement.
from inception to ultimate cancellation of ISSUES CONTEMPORARY & POLITICS Instructor: Terri Mester Books: A Brief History of Mexico. the program. Fourth Edition, 2009, Lynn V. Wednesdays 1:30–3:30 p.m. Book: Dangerously Funny, David Bianculli Foster; The Old Gringo, C. Fuentes February 4–March 4 trans. Margaret Sayers Peden Location: The College Club of Cleveland (free parking available) UNDERSTANDING U.S.- Cost: $105 IRAN RELATIONS HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON – PRESIDENT IN WAITING? This course will focus on the ethnic/ Leader-Teacher: Norman Robbins racial experiences of Latin, African and Tuesdays 10 a.m. Leader-Teacher: Pamela Belknap Asian Americans through representative March 24–May 12 Thursdays 1:30 p.m. works of fiction, nonfiction and film clips. Location: Brecksville United Church of March 26–May 14 Students will explore the way racial and Christ, 23 Public Square, Brecksville, Ohio Location: Judson Manor, 1890 East 107th ethnic identities are produced through Cost: $75 St., Cleveland, Ohio political struggle on a local, national and Cost: $75 global scale, and how they are maintained This course will begin with an introduction and transformed over time. Participants on geography, early history and a preview Will the nation grant Hillary Rodham will examine the intersection of race and of the key events of pride and humiliation Clinton the opportunity to serve as ethnicity with gender, class, parental in modern history, which affect Iranian president? What would be her foreign and pressure and nation in order to better thinking to this day. Then, a series of domestic agenda? Will Bill’s presidential understand how systems of power and sessions will cover modern Iranian history, record and political popularity, as well inequality are constructed, reinforced and (beginning around 1900) in parallel with as his personal indiscretions, have any challenged. reading about the life of Muhammed impact upon her election? Would Bill serve Mossedegh, a remarkable and seminal a role in her Administration? In this course figure who lived through much of this the life and career of a uniquely talented period. Finally, the last two sessions apply and ambitious American woman will be this background to the pros and cons of examined. current U.S. policy options with respect to Books: Bill and Hillary – The Politics of the Iran, namely sanctions, military action or Personal, William Chafe; HRC: State Secrets diplomacy. and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Books: Patriot of Persia, Christopher de Allen and Amie Parnes Bellaigue; selections from: Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, Michael Axworthy
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THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB - MY PROMISED LAND: THE CURRENT PRESSING ISSUES: PROBING HUMAN GENETICS TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ISRAEL ON GENDER AND JUDAISM Leader-Teacher: Joe Konen Leader-Teacher: Joe Konen Instructor: Alanna Cooper Thursdays 10:30 a.m. Fridays 10 a.m. Wednesdays 10 a.m.–noon March 26–May 14 March 27–May 15 April 29–May 20 Location: Hamlet Village, 200 Hamlet Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Hills Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 2747 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Cost: $54 Heights, Ohio Cost: $75 As civil marriage laws change, and as Sam Kean helps one to investigate the Cost: $75 women gain more equality in society at evolution of human genetics on the macro Ari Shavit, a columnist for the Israeli large, how are reverberations felt in the and micro scale. The book makes genetic daily Haaretz, weaves narratives about ways Judaism is practiced and understood? and evolutionary science accessible and individual (Jewish and Palestinian) This course examines current issues facing allows us to discuss implications for founders, fighters and entrepreneurs of American and Israeli Jews surrounding society today. Israel, as well as stories about individual questions of gender and sexuality. Issues communities (kibbutz, village, city, camp) to be explored include: Women of the Wall, Book: The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost into a narrative history of Israel over reverberations of the Washington, D.C. Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written the last century and a quarter. Thomas Mikvah scandal, same sex Jewish marriage, by Our Genetic Code; Sam Kean, Little Friedman says, “The uniqueness of Shavit’s Hareidi women running for office in Israel Brown and Company book is that when you’re done with it you and the feminization of American Judaism. can understand, respect or love Israel—but not in a dogmatic or unthinking way, and not a fake or contrived Israel.” Book: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, Ari Shavit
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RELIGION
RELIGION AND SCIENCE: SOME CHRISTIANS AND ANTI-JUDAISM JEWISH COMMENTARY ON PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS Instructor: Todd Rosenberg THE NEW TESTAMENT
Instructor: Michael Miller Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. Instructor: Todd Rosenberg RELIGION Thursdays 7–8:30 p.m. March 9–April 20 (no class April 6) Mondays 6:30–8:30 p.m. February 5–26 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood April 27–June 8 (no class May 25) Location: Lakewood Public Library, Cost: $85 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Main Branch Cost: $85 This class will explore Christian concepts Cost: Free and open to the public that historically have been viewed as This class will utilize The Jewish Annotated Are science and religion fundamentally challenges to Judaism. Topics will include: New Testament by Jewish professors, opposed to one another? Is there empirical whether the Jews are responsible for the Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler, to evidence for or against God's existence? Is death of Jesus, Replacement Theology, explore the Jewish backgrounds of various the theory of Intelligent Design a genuine anti-Semitism and the church, whether passages in the New Testament. Topics rival to evolutionary theory? What do Jews are destined for hell, and Christian will include Romans 9:11, The Sermon on modern biology and neuroscience imply versus Jewish ethics. The course is the Mount, The Lord’s Prayer, Parable of about the nature of the human mind, the designed for adult learners at all levels, and the Good Samaritan—and other parables, soul or the prospect of life after death? In participants of all religious backgrounds are the Gospel of Mark, and the Book of Acts. this series, each of these questions will be encouraged to attend. Materials are drawn No specific knowledge of Christianity is considered and the historical and political from The Jewish-Christian Debate by Todd required, and no prior class is required. All context in which they have been debated Rosenberg. faiths are encouraged to attend. SPONSORED SESSIONS & EVENTS EVENTS & SESSIONS SPONSORED will be examined.
www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 67 COURSES BY SUBJECT SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
MEDIA LITERACY: LEARN TO RELIGION AND SCIENCE: SOME THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB - USE THE INTERNET WISELY PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS PROBING HUMAN GENETICS Instructor: Susan Schaul Instructor: Michael Miller Leader-Teacher: Joe Konen Tuesdays 6:30–8 p.m. Thursdays 7–8:30 p.m. Thursdays 10:30 a.m. January 27–February 17 February 5–26 March 26–May 14 Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Location: Lakewood Public Library, Main Location: Hamlet Village, 200 Hamlet Cost: $36 Branch Hills Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio Today, people are flooded and Cost: Free and open to the public Cost: $75 overwhelmed with information from Are science and religion fundamentally Sam Kean helps one to investigate the the Internet—breaking news, medical opposed to one another? Is there empirical evolution of human genetics on the macro information, travel advertising, how to evidence for or against God’s existence? Is and micro scale. The book makes genetic start a business, and so much more! How the theory of Intelligent Design a genuine and evolutionary science accessible and does one make sense of what is valuable rival to evolutionary theory? What do allows us to discuss implications for information and what is not? In this course, modern biology and neuroscience imply society today. students will become more media literate. about the nature of the human mind, the Topics of discovery will include targeting soul or the prospect of life after death? In Book: The Violinist’s Thumb And Other Lost Internet searches, identifying credible this series, each of these questions will be Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written websites, and finding reliable information. considered and the historical and political by Our Genetic Code; Sam Kean, Little Students will learn when it is safe to context in which they have been debated Brown and Company share personal information and when it will be examined. For information on the Origins Science is not. Participants will also explore the Scholars Program see page 22. exploding array of learning opportunities For information on the Origins Science in the digital age—many of them free! For Scholars Program see page 22. the first class, please bring in your digital devices (tablets, iPads, cameras, e-readers, smartphones, etc.) for show and tell, as well as questions and curiosity.
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WRITING
WRITE YOUR STORY: THE ART WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION POETRY WORKSHOP OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE Instructor: Linda Tuthill Instructor: Linda Tuthill WRITING Instructor: Lori Compton Tuesdays 1–3 p.m. Thursdays 1–3 p.m. Tuesdays 3–5 p.m. May 5–June 16 May 7–June 18 Session I: March 10–April 21 OR Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley (no class April 7) Wednesdays 1–3 p.m. Ridge Farms, The Pink Pig Session II: May 5–June 16 May 6–June 17 Cost: $85 (no class May 12) Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley At its heart, poetry is creative play. Location: Siegal Facility Beachwood Ridge Farms, Kutina Classroom Students will use the materials of poetry: Cost: $85 per session Cost: $85 simile, metaphor, image, line breaks and (register for one or both sessions) Nonfiction covers a wide range of word choice to make a new world on the Stories are our legacy. Participants in this possibilities. This course will sample page. They will share the results of their writing workshop will retell their story; different genres, such as nature writing, word play, giving and receiving constructive of a life-changing incident, a family myth humor, sports, travel, health, and how-to. feedback. Each student should bring 15 or legend or a meaningful relationship. Students will write about their own life copies of an original poem to the first class. Whether ones writing is funny or serious, experiences on these topics. for an intimate audience, for blogging or JOURNAL WRITING for publication, this hands-on course will help locate the urgent and salient points of Instructor: Jenny Clark students’ stories. Essays will be submitted Thursdays 9:30–11:30 a.m. to the class for response and feedback. May 14–June 25 Reading materials distributed in class open Location: Squire Valleevue and Valley up new ways to think about the art and Ridge Farms, The Pink Pig impact of personal narrative. Cost: $85 Choice and identity are closely linked. Choices are empowering and a personal journal can be a tool for discerning wants and needs. Through quotes, questions and daily writing, students will examine the thrill of the choice.
WRITER'S CENTER STAGE
The William N. Skirball Writers Center Khaled Hosseini Mary Roach Stage Series brings the literary world’s best Thursday 7:30 p.m. Wednesday 7:30 p.m. writers to Cleveland. Each show is followed March 5 April 22 by a question and answer session and book Cost: $30 signing. Details and Tickets: http://case.edu/ Details and Tickets: http://case.edu/ universitycenter/writers-center-stage/ The 2014–2015 series is presented by the universitycenter/writers-center-stage/ Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and Case Western Reserve University. Chang-Rae Lee Funds raised by this series help to support Tuesday 7:30 p.m. the Cuyahoga County Public Library, the March 24 nation’s top-rated library system for five Details and Tickets: http://case.edu/ consecutive years. universitycenter/writers-center-stage/
www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 69 Town Hall of Cleveland, the nation’s longest consecutive-running speaker series, Town Hall of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, the program’s academic sponsor since 2010, jointly announced today an expanded partnership, in which the university will at Case Western assume management and full operation of the series by July 2014. Reserve University The newly named “Town Hall of Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University” preserves and expands the rich legacy of the 83-year-old public lecture series. Spring 2015 Speakers Programming also moves from Playhouse Square to Case Western Reserve’s new Tinkham Veale University Center, which opens this August.
MONDAY MONDAY FEB 2, 2015 APRIL 13, 2015 6 p.m. 6 p.m. SARAH SHERRY LEWIS TURKLE
How We Rise: The Flight from A Path to Creativity Conversation
Power of Diversity Lecture Series F. Joseph Callahan Presented in partnership with Distinguished Lecture the Office for Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity
Tinkham Veale University Center | 11038 Bellflower Road
details and tickets: case.edu/events/townhall
ETHICS TABLE-BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Facilitator: Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer We may hold a listening circle driven by students (e.g., leaders of Wednesdays 11 a.m. (bi-weekly) campus organizations or interested students) in which students Location: Case Western Reserve campus (specific building articulate to those present what the genuine ethical issues are and room TBD) facing them today and how they would like to see them taken up reflectively by the campus community. The main Ethics Table expression is a bi-weekly brown-bag lunch open to any member of the campus community, students We may have a guest discussant who leads a discussion on an and to members of the wider community outside the campus ethical issue of genuine public interest. if they so desire. The lunches are BYO (bring your own) food, We may discuss a short reading in ethics. with coffee and some dessert provided. The lunches are meant primarily to encourage free-form discussion of ethical issues For more details, including specific dates and locations, visit the relevant or of interest to campus members of any kind. Department of Philosophy’s website at http://philosophy.case.edu/beamer-schneider-professorship/ They are meant to widen our community ethos and enrich our ethics-table/. reflective and critical understanding of our university as an environment for ethical learning. In the brown-bag lunches, we will occasionally depart from informal, free-form discussion in one of several ways.
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Allen Memorial Medical Library, Cuyahoga County Public Judson Park Rosemont Country Club CWRU campus Library, Parma Branch 2181 Ambleside Drive 3777 Rosemont Ave. 11000 Euclid Ave. 2111 Snow Road Cleveland, OH 44106 Fairlawn, OH 44141 Cleveland, OH 44106 Parma, OH 44129 Kelvin Smith Library, CWRU Siegal Facility Beachwood Bay United Methodist Church Cuyahoga County Library, Campus 26500 Shaker Blvd. 29931 Lake Road Parma-Snow Branch 11055 Euclid Ave. Beachwood, OH 44122 Bay Village, OH 44140 2111 Snow Road Cleveland, OH 44106 Cleveland, OH 44134 South Franklin Circle Breckenridge Village Lakewood Public Library, Main 16600 Warren Court 36851 Ridge Road Cleveland Museum of Art Branch Chagrin Falls, OH 44023 Willoughby, OH 37125 11150 East Blvd. 15425 Detroit Ave. Squire Valleevue and Valley Cleveland, OH 44106 Lakewood, OH 44107 Ridge Farms Brecksville United 37125 Fairmount Blvd. Church of Christ Cleveland Skating Club Lakewood United Methodist Hunting Valley, OH 44022 23 Public Square 2500 Kemper Road Church Brecksville, OH 44094 Cleveland, OH 44120 15700 Detroit Ave. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Lakewood, OH 44107 2747 Fairmount Blvd. Church of the Redeemer Cleveland Museum of Natural Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 2420 S. Taylor Road History Laurel Lake Community Room Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 1 Wade Oval Drive 200 Laurel Lake Drive Suburban Temple–Kol Ami Cleveland, OH 44106 Hudson, OH 44236 22401 Chagrin Blvd. Clark Hall, CWRU campus Beachwood, OH 44122 11130 Bellflower Road Don Umerley Civic Center Laurel School-Lyman Campus Cleveland, OH 44106 21016 Hilliard Blvd. 1 Lyman Circle The College Club of Cleveland Rocky River, OH 44116 Shaker Heights, OH 44122 2348 Overlook Road Cuyahoga County Public Cleveland Heights, OH 44106 Library, Beachwood First Unitarian Church of Laurel School-Butler Campus 25501 Shaker Blvd. Cleveland 7420 Fairmount Road The Renaissance Beachwood, OH 44122 21600 Shaker Blvd. Russell Township, OH 44072 26376 John Road Shaker Heights, OH 44122 Olmsted Township, OH 44138 Cuyahoga County Public Mandel Jewish Community Library, Bay Village Branch Gates Mills Community House Center Tinkham Veale University 502 Cahoon Road 1460 Chagrin River Road 26001 S. Woodland Road Center, CWRU campus Bay Village, OH 44140 Gates Mills, OH 44040 Beachwood, OH 44122 11038 Bellflower Road Cleveland, OH 44106 Cuyahoga County Public Hamlet Village Mayfield Sandridge Country Library, Mayfield 200 Hamlet Hills Drive Club Westlake United Methodist 500 SOM Center Road Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 1545 Sheridan Road Church Mayfield, OH 44143 South Euclid, OH 44121 27650 Center Ridge Road Jewish Federation of Cleveland Westlake, OH 44145 Cuyahoga County Public Mandel Building Middleburg Heights Church Library, Orange Branch 25701 Science Park Drive 7165 Big Creek Parkway Wolstein Building Auditorium, 31300 Chagrin Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44122 Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 CWRU campus Cleveland, OH 44124 2103 Cornell Road Judson Manor Rocky River Public Library Cleveland, OH 44106 1890 East 107th St. 1600 Hampton Road Cleveland, OH 44106 Rocky River, OH 44116
OTHER CWRU LIFELONG LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
CWRU COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DITTRICK MEDICAL HISTORY CENTER SCHUBERT CENTER FOR CHILD STUDIES For up-to-date information on College of A medical history museum, archives, and The Center offers lectures and events Arts and Science events and programs, collections of rare books, artifacts, and throughout the academic year on topics visit www.cwru.edu/artsci and click on the images. The public is welcome to attend its concerning children and childhood. Visit Event Calendar. lectures. Reservations required. schubert.case.edu for details. www.case.edu/artsci/dittrick/museum/ CEU credits are occasionally offered. CENTER FOR POLICY STUDIES Public Affairs Discussion Group every FLORA STONE MATHER PERFORMING ARTS AT CWRU Friday during the academic year from CENTER FOR WOMEN 12:30-1:30 p.m. Theater, Dance, and Music offer a broad Kelvin Smith Library, Dampeer Room The Center provides programming open to selection of performances throughout the the public throughout the year including academic year that are open to the public. Visit policy.case.edu; fridaylunch.case.edu; guest speakers, salons, and public forums. and politicalscience.case.edu. performingarts.case.edu/ www.case.edu/provost/centerforwomen/ www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 71 INSTRUCTORS & PRESENTERS
Jay Abercrombie ������������������������������ 15, 55 Tim Batiuk ������������������������������������������������ 6 Bill Brauning ��������������������������������� 9, 53, 66 earned a BS from The University of Akron is best known for his comic strips, Funky lectures on pop music of the 1960s utiliz- and a PhD from Cornell University. Aber- Winkerbean, and Crankshaft, which soloed ing his vast musical experience and musical crombie is an entomologist and was a field from Funky Winkerbean. His comic strip archives. biologist for Geauga Park District. characters have morphed from mop-head- ed beatniks to their graying 60s, gradually Elise Braverman-Plotkin ��������������� 18, 58 Sylvia Abrams ���������������������������� 19, 21, 62 exploring serious, even tragic circumstances received a BA in philosophy from Earlham earned a BA and a MA from Western Re- College and an MA in Talmud and Rabbin- serve University, a BHL and MHL from Richard Baznik ��������������������������������������� 28 ics from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, and a earned a BA from John Carroll University She has been teaching Jewish values and PhD from Case Western Reserve University. and had completed graduate coursework Talmud to adults for over 16 years. Braver- Abrams is the retired dean of Siegal College at John Carroll University, Case Western Re- man-Plotkin taught Jewish ethics at the of Judaic Studies and previously served as serve University and the University of Vir- Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the director of educational services at the ginia. Baznik currently directs the Institute for the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. Jewish Education Center of Cleveland. for the Study of the University in Society and has been designated as University His- Catherine Butler ����������������������� 20, 50, 51 David Ackerman ������������������������������������� 61 torian at Case Western Reserve University. holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute earned a BA and an EdD from Harvard Uni- of Art. Butler is a visual arts teacher at the versity. Ackerman was a classroom teacher Cynthia Beall ����������������������������������� 23, 41 Laurel School. and assistant superintendent for curricu- holds an MA and PhD in physical anthropol- lum and instruction in greater Boston; su- ogy from Pennsylvania State University and Pauline Chen �������������������������������������������� 6 perintendent of schools in Tuscon, Arizona; a BA in biology from the University of Penn- earned a BA from Harvard University, a JD and K-12 director of studies at University sylvania. Beall is currently a Distinguished from Yale University and a PhD from Princ- School in Cleveland. University Professor at Case Western Re- eton University. Chen has taught Chinese serve University and her research focuses language, literature and film at the Univer- Moshe Adler �������������������������������������������� 59 on human adaptation to high-altitude en- sity of Minnesota and Oberlin College. holds a BA degree from Roosevelt University vironments. in Chicago and was ordained at the Hebrew Jenny Clark ��������������������������������������� 15, 69 Theological College in Skokie, Illinois, where Tim Beatty ������������������������������������������ 8, 52 received a BA in English language and liter- he studied for nine years. Adler has served received a BA and MA from Bowling Green ature from Denison University and an MA in as rabbi of Beth El–The Heights Synagogue State University. After teaching at St. Labre literature from Case Western Reserve Uni- since 1999. He teaches classical Hebrew Indian School in Montana, Beatty spent 30 versity. She is a published writer and poet and writes on the applicability of Jewish law years in the Berea City Schools as a histo- interested in personal journal writing, poet- and ethics to contemporary life. ry teacher. He currently teaches at the Sa- ry, and nature writing. pirstein campus of the Hebrew Academy Lori Compton ����������������������������������� 44, 69 Emanuella Amichai �������������������������������� 31 of Cleveland and works in the manuscripts holds a BFA from Tel Aviv University. Ami- earned a BA in English from Cleveland State division of the Western Reserve Historical University, a JD from Case Western Reserve chai is a director and choreographer work- Society. ing in the field of dance theatre. Amichai is University, and an MFA from The Northeast currently a performance and visual theatre Pamela Belknap ���������������������������������� 9, 66 Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. Comp- artist lecturer and workshop conductor at received a BA in music education from Mt. ton’s writing, both fiction and non-fiction, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is Union College and an MA in music educa- has appeared in many literary journals and the daughter of internationally acclaimed tion from Case Western Reserve Universi- in local media. Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. ty. Belknap is a retired music teacher and a Alanna Cooper ��� 17, 18, 32, 39, 46, 58, 67 minister of music. Brian Amkraut ���������������������� 18, 19, 54, 57 earned a BA at Barnard College and holds received a BA from Columbia University and Moshe Berger ����������������������������������������� 56 an MA and PhD in cultural anthropology a PhD from New York University. Amkraut is received a BA from Yeshiva University, and from Boston University. Cooper has held the executive director of the Siegal Lifelong an MA and PhD from Harvard. Berger was research and teaching positions at Harvard Learning Program and served on faculty of on the faculty at Siegal College for 25 years University, University of Massachusetts, Jewish history at Oberlin College and Siegal and is presently a rabbi at Cedar Sinai Syn- University of Michigan and Boston Universi- College. Amkraut’s published articles ad- agogue. He previously taught at Brandeis ty. She is currently director of Jewish lifelong dress the impact of changing technologies and Harvard Universities and served as rab- learning at Case Western Reserve Universi- on contemporary Jewish life. bi of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel program. ty’s Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Samantha Baskind ������������������������� 19, 35 Christopher Bond ��������������������� 14, 15, 55 Leah Cooper ������������������������������������������� 59 received her BA from the University of is a certified nursery technician and perma- received a BJS and MAJS from Siegal Col- Pennsylvania and a PhD from the Univer- culture designer. Bond is a horticulturist at lege. Cooper teaches at Akiva High School sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Baskind is Case Western Reserve University’s Squire and the Cleveland Hebrew Schools and has professor of art at Cleveland State Universi- Valleevue Farm. also taught at Beth Torah and the Ratner ty and her research focuses on 20th Ameri- Schools. can art and culture and the role of the Jew- ish-American artist in the modern world.
72 www.case.edu/lifelonglearning INSTRUCTORS & PRESENTERS
Corbin Covault ��������������������������������������� 24 Michael J. Foreman, Captain US Navy Atina Grossman �������������������������� 38, 39, 54 holds a BA from the Massachusetts Insti- (Ret.) ���������������������������������������������������� 4, 28 earned a BA from the City College of New tute of Technology and a PhD from Harvard received a BS in aerospace engineering York and a PhD from Rutgers Universi- University. Covault is professor of physics at from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MS ty. Grossman is currently a professor of Case Western Reserve University with ex- in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. humanities and social sciences at Cooper pertise in experimental particle astrophys- Naval Postgraduate School. Foreman was Union for the Advancement of Science and ics, gamma-ray astronomy, and ultra-high selected as an astronaut by NASA in June Art. Her current research focuses on trans- energy cosmic rays. 1998, and flew aboard STS-123 in March national Jewish refugee stories. 2008 and STS-129 in November 2009. He Scott Cowen ������������������������������������� 29, 36 has logged more than 637 hours in space, Peter J. Haas ����������������������������������������� 19 received a BA from the University of Con- including 32 hours and 19 minutes during holds a BA from the University of Michigan necticut and an MBA and DBA from George five spacewalks. Currently, he serves as the and a PhD from Brown University. Haas Washington University. Cowen recently re- Safety Branch Chief at NASA Johnson Space currently hold the Abba Hillel Silver Chair tired as the president of Tulane University Center. in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve where he was intimately connected to the University, where he also serves as chair of reconstruction of New Orleans following Jay Geller ������������������������������� 17, 35, 45, 46 the religion department. He has published Hurricane Katrina. received a BS from Princeton University several books and articles dealing with mor- and an MA and PhD in history from Yale al discourse and with Jewish and Christian Kevin Dicus ��������������������������������������������� 12 University. Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal thought after the Holocaust. holds a PhD from the University of Michi- Professor of Judaic Studies, with a faculty gan. Dicus is a visiting faculty member in appointment in the Department of History, Dale Hilton ��������������������������������������� 51, 62 the classics department at Case Western at Case Western Reserve University. An ex- received a BFA from Virginia Common- Reserve University where he specializes in pert on German Jewry during the past two wealth University and an MA in art history the archaeology of Italy, in particular the centuries, Geller also teaches courses in ur- from the University of Chicago. Hilton di- Etruscan and mid to late Roman Republican ban history and modern European history. rects the teaching and learning area of the periods. education department—overseeing dis- Daniel Goldmark ����������������������� 36, 51, 64 tance learning, Art To Go and the Teacher Valery Dymshits ������������������������ 32, 36, 39 received a BA in music from the University Resource Center—at the Cleveland Muse- holds a doctorate in chemistry from St. of California, Riverside and an MA and PhD um of Art. Petersburg Technological Institute and is the in musicology from the University of Califor- head of the Center Petersburg Judaica at the nia, Los Angeles. Goldmark works on Amer- Justine Howe ����������������������������������������� 26 European University in St. Petersburg, Rus- ican popular music, film and cartoon music earned a BA from Williams College, an MA sia. Dymshits works on Jewish ethnogra- and the history of the music industry. from the University of Chicago, and a PhD phy, traditional art, folklore and oral history from Northwestern University. Howe is on in Ukraine, Moldavia, Byelorussia, the Baltic Cheryl Gordon ���������������������������������� 52, 57 the faculty in the Department of Religious States, Central Asia, Poland and Romania. earned an MAT in Spanish linguistics from Studies and serves as faculty member in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- the Women’s and Gender Studies Program Jane Eisner ��������������������������������������� 37, 39 paign and an MSJS from the Spertus Insti- at Case Western Reserve University. Her received a BA in English from Wesleyan Uni- tute of Jewish Studies. Gordon is an educa- research examines how American Muslim versity and an MA in journalism from Colum- tor and cultural trainer with a passion for identity is formed at the intersection of con- bia University. Eisner is the editor-in-chief Jewish education and a strong knowledge of sumerist practices, institutional rituals and of the Jewish Daily Forward. Eisner has Hispanic culture and the Spanish language. everyday life. held executive editorial and news positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer, served as vice John Grabowski ������������������������������������� 28, David Huston ����������������������������������� 20, 65 president of the National Constitution Cen- received his BA and PhD from Case West- received a BA from St. John’s College An- ter and taught at Wesleyan University and ern Reserve University. Grabowski is an as- napolis and an MA from the Committee on the University of Pennsylvania. sociate professor in applied history at Case Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Western Reserve University and historian Huston has taught several AP courses in Sol Factor and senior vice president for research and his three decades at the Laurel School and earned a BA from Nasson College and an publications at the Western Reserve Histor- is a recipient of Laurel’s highest award for MAT from John Carroll University. Factor ical Society. He specializes in immigration teaching excellence. is a retired public school teacher in history and ethnicity, Cleveland history and public and Holocaust studies and is a part-time history, particularly the fields of archives Alexander Ivanov ����������������������� 32, 37, 39 instructor at Kent State University. and museums. is a researcher, lecturer and administrator at the Center Petersburg Judaica of the Eu- Barbara Greenberg ������������������������� 60, 66 ropean University at St. Petersburg in Rus- received a BS in education from The Ohio sia. Ivanov is the curator of the Petersburg State University and a JD from Cleveland branch of the international archival project State University. Greenberg has many years on Jewish documentary sources in Russia, of adult education experience and is cur- Ukraine and Belarus, carried out by the Rus- rently a magistrate for the Division of Small sian State University of Humanities in Mos- Claims for the Bedford Municipal Court and cow and the Jewish Theological Seminary in a magistrate for the Cuyahoga County Juve- New York. nile Court Community Division Program. www.case.edu/lifelonglearning 73 INSTRUCTORS & PRESENTERS
Joseph Jacoby ������������������������� 9, 10, 61, 66 Bruce Latimer ��������������������������������� 22, 23 Tim Matson ������������������������������������� 15, 55 is a retired English teacher at Lakewood earned his PhD from Kent State University. received a PhD in evolutionary ecology from Schools. Jacoby teaches private piano les- Latimer is professor of anthropology, anat- Kent State University and Central Michigan sons and tutors children at Joseph Gallagh- omy and cognitive science and director of University. Matson is the curator of verte- er Public School in Cleveland. the Center for Human Origins at Case West- brate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of ern Reserve University. He is among a group Natural History. Jeffrey Karem �������������������������������������������� 7 of scientists who analyzed the famous 3.2 earned a BA from Rice University and a PhD million-year-old “Lucy” fossil skeleton Colin McLarty ����������������������������������������� 24 from Yale University. Karem is a professor earned a BS and PhD from Case Western of English at Cleveland State University. His Rachel Lawton ��������������������������������������� 59 Reserve University. McLarty is Truman P. research and teaching focus on 20th centu- earned a BA from Haifa University and an Handy Professor of Intellectual Philosophy ry American literature with an emphasis on MA from Siegal College of Jewish Studies. and professor of mathematics in the De- regional and ethnic literatures throughout Lawton is currently a faculty member at partment of Philosophy at Case Western the American hemisphere. Gross Schechter Day School and has taught Reserve University. at Cleveland Hebrew Schools and Akiva High Joseph Kelly ������������������������������������������� 13 School. Terry Meehan �������������������������������������� 9, 61 is a professor of religious studies at John earned a BA in marketing from Cleveland Carroll University. Kelly writes and teaches Kenneth F. Ledford ������������������� 27, 28, 43 State University and an MA in literature and about the history of Catholicism and the or- earned a BA and JD from the University of film from Kent State University. Meehan igins of Christian holidays. North Carolina, Chapel Hill and received his curates and presents an ongoing Lakewood MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Public Library monthly film series and is Etgar Keret ��������������������������������������� 29, 37 Ledford is a social historian of modern Ger- currently an adjunct professor of film ap- is the author of six bestselling story collec- many from 1789 to the present and is cur- preciation at Lorain County and Lakeland tions. Keret’s writing have been published rently an associate professor of history and Community Colleges. in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, law at Case Western Reserve University. The Paris Review, and Zoetrope. Jellyfish, his Terri Mester ��������������������������������������� 12, 66 first movie as a director along with his wife, Elizabeth Lehfeldt ��������������������������������� 13 received her BA and PhD from Case West- Shira Geffen, won the Camera d’Or prize for holds a BA from Lawrence University and a ern Reserve University. Mester is a profes- best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010, PhD from Indiana University. Lehfeldt is a sor in the Department of English at Case he was named a Chevalier of France’s Order professor of history at Cleveland State Uni- Western Reserve University where she is of Arts and Letters. versity with expertise in medieval and early also pre-law advisor. Mester classes include modern Spain. film, literature and expository writing for the Eric Kisch ����������������������������������������������� 19 English department and technical writing is a graduate of Melbourne University and Reva Leizman ��������������������������������������� 62 for the Case School of Engineering. holds two MA degrees from Columbia Uni- earned a PhD in comparative literature from versity. A retired market researcher and Case Western Reserve University. Leizman Michael D. Miller ��� 11, 19, 21, 50, 65, 67, 68 consultant, Kisch has had a lifelong passion teaches courses on classic Yiddish writers received a BA from the University of Michi- for classical music and produces a week- and Jewish authors of the past and present, gan and an MA and PhD in philosophy from ly show Musical Passions on 104.9 WCLV with a special focus on the influence of the The Ohio State University. Miller has nearly classical FM. Holocaust on modern literature. a decade of university teaching experience, and has taught courses on ethics, aesthetics, Joseph Konen ������������������������� 9, 54, 67, 68 Whitney Lloyd ������������������������������������ 8, 53 logic, critical thinking, metaphysics, episte- earned an MS from the University of Notre holds a BA in American history from Har- mology, philosophy of language, philosophy Dame and a DMin from the United Theolog- vard University and an MA in American his- of religion and the history of philosophy. ical Seminary. Konen is emeritus associate tory from New York University. Lloyd was a professor at the Ohio State University Ex- history teacher and director of college guid- Marian Morton ��������������������������������������� 28 tension Urban Community Development ance at St. Louis Country Day and Cleve- earned a BA from Smith College and a PhD and Sustainability Program. land’s University School for over 30 years. from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently the college adviser to the Morton is professor emerita at John Carroll Joseph LaManna ����������������������� 22, 24, 41 Montessori High School at University Circle. University with expertise in Cleveland area holds a BS in biology from Georgetown Uni- history. versity and a PhD in physiology and phar- Shari Lowin ��������������������������������������������� 35 macology from Duke University. LaManna received a BA from Columbia University and Mike Olszewski �������������������������������������� 38 is a professor of physiology and biophysics a PhD from the University of Chicago. Lowin is a veteran Cleveland radio and television at Case Western Reserve University School is currently associate professor of religious personality. Best known for his work at the of Medicine. studies at Stonehill College. Her research legendary WMMS-FM, he has also host- centers on the interplay between Judaism ed and produced programs for WNCX-FM, and Islam in the early and early medieval WKNR-AM, WOIO-TV, WUAB-TV and other Islamic periods, focusing mainly on the de- stations. Olszewski teaches media, speech velopment of Jewish and Muslim exegetical and communications classes at Kent State narratives. University, The University of Akron, and No- tre Dame College.
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Janice Olszewski ����������������������������������� 38 Mary Kay Robinson �������������������������� 29, 64 Catherine Scallen ����������������������������� 40, 43 is a photographer with more than three has risen to national prominence as a versa- earned a BA from Wellesley College and a decades in the travel and tourism industry. tile flutist who has performed with the Sym- PhD from Princeton University. She is de- Olszewski has traveled extensively across phony Orchestras of Chicago, St. Louis, Pitts- partment chair and professor of art and art the United States and Europe, and her pho- burgh, Detroit, Buffalo and Kansas City, as history at Case Western Reserve University. tography work has been published in Film- well as the Cleveland Opera and Toledo and Scallen is an experienced curator, research- fax, Outre, and other national magazines. the Cleveland Orchestras. Robinson teaches er and teacher who specializes in Northern Flute and coaches Chamber Music at the Baroque art, with a particular emphasis on Barbara Parr ��������������������������� 9, 21, 61, 62 Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western the art of Rembrandt. received a BS from the Indiana University Reserve University, and Ithaca College. of Pennsylvania and a MEd from Cleve- Susan Schaul ����������������������������������������� 68 land State University. Parr was a teacher at Donald Rosenberg ���������������������������� 40, 48 received a MEd degree from Cleveland State Rocky River High School. is a graduate of the Mannes College of Mu- University and has been teaching computer sic and the Yale School of Music. Rosenberg software for over 10 years. In her teach- Maggie Popkin ��������������������������������������� 40 is the former music and dance writer for The ing, Schaul aims to provide people with the earned a BA from Williams College and an Plain Dealer and president of the Music Crit- tools to critically evaluate and understand MA and PhD from New York University. Pop- ics Association of North America. Rosen- the flood of digital information circulating kin is an assistant professor of Roman art berg’s writing has appeared in Symphony around us. at Case Western Reserve University. In ad- Magazine, Opera News, Opera (London), dition to her teaching and research, Popkin Musical America, and other publications. He Irene Shaland ������������������������������������������ 17 has excavated at Selinunte in Sicily and at is currently editor of EMAg, the Magazine of holds an MA in English literature from Case Samothrace in Greece, where she is an on- Early Music America. Western Reserve University, an MS in library going member of the archaeological team. science from Kent State, and a BS and MS Todd Rosenberg ������������������������������� 57, 67 in electrical engineering from St. Petersburg Patricia Princehouse ����������������������� 41, 42 is an attorney who has spent many years State. Shaland has written on the history of earned her MA from Yale and a PhD from studying and teaching Judaism and its re- theater, drama and intercultural interpreta- Harvard University. Princehouse is director lationship to Christianity. Rosenberg has tions, and has visited over 60 countries with of the program in evolutionary biology at taught courses at Park Synagogue, B’nai many trips resulting in research articles and Case Western Reserve University, an evo- Jeshurun Synagogue and Temple Emanuel. educational lectures. lutionary biologist, and an historian of sci- ence. She has conducted fieldwork on pri- Donna K. Rumenik ������������������������������� 54 Judith Shamir ������������������������������������ 59, 60 mate evolution in Africa and North America. holds PhD in sociology and psychology. In holds an MHL degree from the Cleveland Ukraine, she held a Fulbright Fellowship College of Jewish Studies and a MEd degree D.M. Pulley (pseudonym) ������������������������ 6 at the Ivan Franko National University and in curriculum development and supervision is author of The Dead Key and 2014 Grand taught a Holocaust course at the Ukrainian from John Carroll University. Shamir was on Prize Winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Catholic University. Rumenik’s work focuses the faculty of Siegal College of Judaic Studies Novel Award. She works as a professional on prejudice, violence and genocide. for many years serving as an instructor and engineer specializing in the rehabilitation of a coordinator of the Ulpan program, and lat- historic structures and forensic investiga- Mary Doria Russell ������������������������ 5, 30, 63 er, as a Hebrew literature lecturer. tions of building failures. earned a BA from the University of Illi- nois, Urbana, an MA from Northeastern Yehudit Sharaby ����������������������������������� 59 Leatrice Rabinsky ���������������� 52, 54, 56, 58 University and a PhD from the University received a BA from Bar-Ilan University in Is- holds a BA and MA in English and a PhD in of Michigan. Russell is best known as an rael and an MA in Jewish education from the education from Case Western Reserve Uni- award-winning novelist, but also received Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. Shara- versity. Rabinsky has been teaching and numerous science awards and fellowships by teaches Hebrew and Judaic studies at writing about the Holocaust and anti-Semi- before begin a second career as a writer of Gross Schechter Day School. tism since 1973. She was awarded a Mandel historical fiction in the 1990s. Fellowship of Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Patricia Sigmier ������������������������������� 15, 51 Holocaust Memorial Museum and is cur- David Salczer ������������������������������������������ 59 is a local artist whose work has been exhib- rently a member the Ohio Council on Holo- holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from The ited at the Butler Institute of American Art caust Education and the National Council of Ohio State University. Salczer was an ad- in Youngstown. Sigmier teaches painting Teachers of English Committee on Teaching junct assistant professor at the former courses at Case Western Reserve Universi- Genocide and Intolerance. Cleveland College of Jewish Studies and a ty’s Squire Valleevue Farm. former assistant professor at The Ohio State Norman Robbins ����������������������� 10, 53, 66 University. His specialty is foreign language Ted Smith �������������������������������������������� 9, 53 earned an MD at Harvard University and a teaching, particularly English to speakers of earned a BA in speech communications from PhD at Rockefeller University. Robbins is Hebrew and Hebrew to English speakers. Baldwin Wallace University. He is a second emeritus professor of neurosciences in the degree black belt in martial arts and is cur- School of Medicine at Case Western Re- rently working with senior citizen commu- serve University. nities in the Cleveland area to introduce Asian exercises into their daily routines.
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Danny Solow ������������������������������������������� 23 Jim Van Horn �������������������������������������� 9, 53 George Woideck ������������������������������� 20, 50 holds a BS, Carnegie-Mellon University, MS received a BA from Wittenberg University. is a local ceramic artist. Woideck gives ce- from University of California at Berkeley Van Horn is a teacher, manufacturer’s rep- ramic workshops to school instructors and a PhD from Stanford University. Solow resentative, coach, philatelist and historical for the Teacher Resource Center of the is on faculty at the Weatherhead School of photographer. Cleveland Museum of Art, completes art- Management at Case Western Reserve Uni- ist-in-residences in Northeast Ohio for versity. He teaches mostly graduate-level Janice Vitullo ������������������������������������� 20, 61 Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio and courses in business, operations research, holds a BA in classical studies from the regularly curates and juries exhibitions. mathematics and computer science. University of Texas at Arlington and an MA in Latin from Kent State University. Vitullo Timothy Wutrich ����������������������������������� 26 Kelly St. Pierre ��������������������� 11, 13, 52, 64 teaches Latin and Greek language and liter- is an instructor in the classics department holds a PhD in musicology from Case West- ature at the Laurel School. at Case Western Reserve University. ern Reserve University. St. Pierre currently teaches undergraduate and graduate mu- Haim Watzman ������������������������������������� 34 Zion Yakar ����������������������������������������� 56, 57 sic history courses in the music and SAGES received a BA from Duke University. was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Is- departments at Case Western Reserve Uni- Watzman is a Jerusalem-based writer, rael and has served Jewish communities versity and the Cleveland Institute of Music. journalist and translator. He is the author in South Africa, Belgium and the United of Company C: An American’s Life as a Citi- States. Rabbi Yakar trained at the National Glenn D. Starkman ������������ 22–24, ,41, 42 zen-Soldier in Israel and A Crack in the Earth: Consevatoire Guiseppe Verdi, in Milan, Italy received a BS from the University of Toronto A Journey Up Israel’s Rift Valley. He has and pursued Talmudic studies that lead him and a PhD from Stanford University. Stark- translated the work of leading Israeli writ- to a career in Jewish education and syna- man is a professor of physics and astrono- ers and scholars, including Tom Segev, David gogue life. my and director of both the Institute for the Grossman, Amos Oz and Shlomo Avineri. Science of Origins and the Center for Educa- Stuart J. Youngner ��������������������������������� 47 tion and Research in Cosmology and Astro- Mike Weiss ��������������������������������������������� 24 received a BA from Swarthmore College and physics at Case Western Reserve University. earned a BA, MD and PhD from Harvard an MD from Case Western Reserve Univer- University and an MBA from Case Western sity where he is Susan E. Watson Professor Tom Suddes �������������������������������������������� 28 Reserve University. Weiss is chair of the and chair of the department of bioethics. holds a BA from The Ohio State University Department of Biochemistry and the Cow- Youngner is a nationally and internationally and a PhD from Ohio University. Suddes an-Blum Professor of Cancer Research and recognized scholar in biomedical ethics. is assistant professor at the E.W. Scripps Professor of Biochemistry & Medicine at School of Journalism, Ohio University. He Case Western Reserve University. His cur- Sonia Yungster ���������������������������������� 59, 60 was elected to the Cleveland Journalism rent research focus in two areas of molecu- is currently a member of the Beachwood Hall of Fame by members of the Press Club lar endocrinology. middle school faculty where she teaches of Cleveland Hebrew. Yungster has served as visiting Peggy J. Wertheim ���������������������������� 14, 51 instructor at Oberlin College and as Hebrew Rivka Taub ��������������������������������������������� 59 is an artist specializing in batik, silk painting, coordinator at Akiva High School. received her BHL and MJS from the Cleve- marbleizing and surface design on fabrics. land College of Jewish Studies. She teaches Wertheim has exhibited throughout the east- Betty Zak ����������������������������������������� 10, 53 Hebrew at Akiva High School and many oth- ern United States in hundreds of juried and owns an education and business consult- er local schools. invitational shows and galleries. Her teaching ing company. Zak has traveled extensively includes adult studio workshops, profession- within the United States and Europe linking Linda Tuthill ������������������������������������� 14, 69 al development courses and artist-in-resi- with respective global communities on fine is a member of the Night Vision poetry dence programs for K- 12 students. arts activities as well as business systems group and the Pudding House Cleveland implementations. She was honored in Ohio Salon. Tuthill gives seasonal writing work- Pierre van der Westhuizen �������������������� 6 Magazine for excellence in education in shops for the Cleveland Metroparks. received a BFA from the University of the 2007 and 2010. Northwest and a DMA from the University Jeffrey Ullom ������������������������������������ 25, 28 of Cincinnatti. Westhuizen is president and earned a BA from Vanderbilt University chief executive officer at Cleveland Interna- and a PhD from the University of Illinois at tional Piano Competition. Champaign–Urbana. Ullom is an assistant professor of theater and director of the Cynthia Willet ������������������������������������������ 26 undergraduate program in theater. His re- earned a PhD from the University of Penn- search interests have focused on contem- sylvania. Willet is a professor in the philos- porary American theatre, especially new ophy department at Emory University. She play development in the regional theatre established the Institute for the History of circuit and on Broadway. Philosophy at Emory.
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